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Astronomers spy galaxies caught in the web of a voracious black hole

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Daniel CleryAstronomers staring out to the farthest reaches of the universe, and hence the deepest depths of time, have been puzzled to find supermassive black holes.

How could such behemoths have had time to swallow up so much matter when the universe was so young? With new observations of one of these youthful giants—a black hole 1 billion times the mass of the Sun and less than 1 billion years old—astronomers now have a possible answer.They found the black hole was connected to six nearby galaxies by filaments: feeding tubes for the monster in their midst.

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