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Team gets rare glimpse at how black holes grow

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Scientists have made the most detailed observation of a supermassive black hole’s accretion phase.

“This three-telescope interferometry is a major milestone toward directly imaging the growth phase of supermassive black holes,” says Sebastian Hoenig, a postdoctoral researcher at the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Photo credit: NASA E/PO-Sonoma State University, Aurore Simonnet

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