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Webb Confirms Overmassive Black Hole Feeding in a Galaxy 570 Million Years After the Big Bang

The result challenges prevailing ideas about how galaxies and their central engines grew.

IXPE Detects Unexpectedly High X-Ray Polarization From Heartbeat Black Hole

JWST to Target Triple Black Hole in Ringed Infinity Galaxy

LVK Confirms Record-Breaking 225-Solar-Mass Black Hole Merger

Infinity Galaxy’s Newborn Black Hole Shows Evidence of Direct Collapse

Record-Breaking 225-Solar-Mass Black Hole Merger Challenges Formation Models