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Runaway supermassive black hole RBH-1 offers new way to reconstruct ancient merger

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Black holes are fascinating regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, even light, can escape them. The largest known black holes, called supermassive black holes, contain millions to billions of times the mass of the sun and are typically located at the centers of galaxies.

First report: Astronomers watch a black hole's feeding frenzy end with a bad case of cosmic indigestion — space.com, 8d