A ravenous black hole in our backyard could be our window into the ancient universe
via space.com
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A supermassive black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy is behaving similarly to black holes that existed just after the Big Bang, voraciously feeding on copious amounts of matter. The relatively close cosmic titan could therefore provide insight into the much more distant universe. Indeed, the intense accretion behavior demonstrated by the supermassive […]