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Left: The remnants of a rogue star ripped apart by the black hole crash onto the disk, while the hot region above it is still radiating X-rays. Right: The crashed star disrupted the gas disk, turning off the X-rays. Credit: Robert Hurt, NASA /JPL

What interrupted a supermassive black hole's feast?

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Researchers have identified a star that got too close to the "dinner table" and was swallowed up as well
Image: A disk of gas feeding a massive black hole, while emitting radiation" Credit: Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Israeli astronomers have identified an unknown phenomenon that feeds and grows giant black holes very quickly

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Illustration of the galaxy and the giant black hole at its center. The black hole converts some of the matter it absorbs into energetic radiation (shaded in blue), while the galaxy continues to form new stars (purple areas). [Image credit: Michael Helfenbein/Yale University - M. Helfenbein / Yale University]

The black hole that was ahead of its time

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A growing black hole. Image: NASA

Researchers in Tel Aviv shed light on the period when the black holes grew

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