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The otherwise invisible object revealed itself with a flash of light as it munched on its stellar dinner.
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The otherwise invisible object revealed itself with a flash of light as it munched on its stellar dinner.
Read this reportNASA’s Swift Observatory observed a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star more than 30,000 light-years from the center of a distant galaxy. The extraordinary flare briefly outshone its entire host galaxy in ultraviolet light and revealed a black hole about a million times the Sun’s mass.
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NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on the outskirts of a faraway galaxy. These phenomena are rare to begin with, and none had ever before been seen so far outside of a galaxy’s core. “We were looking for these star-shredding events as a way […]
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Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole straying far from the centre of its galaxy using light from a star being ripped apart
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AIPROPX has consolidated 5 reports from 4 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Astronomers Spotted a Wandering Black Hole at the Edge of Its Galaxy. Then It Found a Snack.” Every covered outlet is based in Other.
The earliest report in this entry came from New Scientist (Jul 27, 2026, 16:00 UTC); the most recent came from Gizmodo (Jul 28, 2026, 19:45 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 1 named entity is referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “black hole”.
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