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ESA: XMM-Newton takes astronomers to a black hole’s edge

Rome, Italy - A supermassive black hole lying deep at the core of a distant active galaxy

Using new data from ESA’s XMM-Newton spaceborne observatory, astronomers have probed closer than ever to a supermassive black hole lying deep at the core of a distant active galaxy. The galaxy – known as 1H0707-495 – was observed during four 48-hr-long orbits of XMM-Newton around Earth, starting in January 2008. The black hole at its centre was thought to be partially obscured from view by inter...

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