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UHZ1: NASA telescopes discover record-breaking black hole

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This image contains the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays , a result that may explain how some of the first supermassive black holes in the universe formed. As we report in our press release , this discovery was made using X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (purple) and infrared data from…

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