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Black holes
Black holes are objects whose gravity is so strong that not even light escapes from behind their event horizon. Here: new observations of supermassive and stellar-mass black holes — shadow images, mergers, jets and how they shape galaxies.
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Webb finds record-distance black hole in galaxy MoM-BL-z10
First stars may help seed supermassive black holes
Blazar jet's polarization angle rotated 136° in 80 minutes
Triple star systems explain black-hole merger mass peak
Tightest Known Binary Black Hole Found in NGC 5044
INTEGRAL Limits the Share of Primordial Black Holes
Little Red Dots May Mark Black Hole Birth
11% of Dawn-Era Quasars Accrete Near the Eddington Limit
JWST sets first primordial black hole limits toward M31
Why early supermassive black holes grew in free fall
