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Wow! Thousands of new black holes just found

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Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) at Kitt Peak in Arizona, astronomers have discovered thousands of new black holes. These discoveries have more than tripled the amount of known intermediate-mass black holes and active black holes at the centers of dwarf galaxies. Images and videos: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Legacy Surveys/D. Lang (Perimeter Institute)/NAOJ/HSC Collaboration/D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab) & M. Zamani (NSF NOIR…

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A Shocking Discovery of 300 Rare Black Holes Is Changing Everything We Thought We Knew

Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), astronomers have uncovered a massive dataset revealing a hidden population of black holes. Their survey spanned 410,000 galaxies, identifying 2,500 dwarf galaxies hosting feeding black holes and 300 potential intermediate-mass black holes—making this the largest collection of such candidates ever detected. These findings, recently published in The Astrophysical […] The post A Shocking Discov…

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