Baby Black Hole Found—Are You Older Than a Cosmic Monster?
Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 11:40
in Astronomy & Space
Just 50 million light-years from Earth sits a black hole that astronomers saw being "born" in 1979, x-ray observations reveal.
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