For the first time, scientists have gained information from the very surface of a newborn black hole.
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Astronomers have spotted runaway black holes screaming through space, leaving trails of stars in in their wake.
Too big to come from a dying star and too small to inhabit the center of a galaxy, these black holes are a puzzle that scientists are using LIGO to investigate.
X-rays emitted around black holes can tell astrophysicists about how fast they’re growing.
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