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Astronomers witness ultrarare real-time formation of a supermassive black hole [TechSpot]
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According to a recently released paper, scientists from the European Southern Observatory are reasonably sure that they just witnessed a supermassive black hole “turn on” in real time, radically altering the appearance of the surrounding galaxy. Other explanations are plausible but unlikely.