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Two massive black holes swept clean the center of a galaxy ⚡ экспресс

Original: "A Kiloparsec-Scale Stellar Cavity in the Center of Abell402-BCG May be Caused by Dynamic Interactions with an Ultramassive Black Hole"
arXiv:2603.10104 · 2026-03-10 · CC BY · ⏱ 1 min · Galaxies
A yawning void among the stars pointed to a record-breaking pair of black holes.
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In the center of a distant galaxy, a 3,000-light-year-wide void yawns. Stars should be there, but they've vanished. The solution: two heavyweight black holes (15 times more massive than the center of the Milky Way) flung the stars away with their dance. Possibly the heaviest pair of black holes in the Universe.

🎯 The discovered pair of black holes is heavier than all the stars in some small galaxies combined.

🎬 If in 'Interstellar' the hero dove into one black hole, here a pair of giants scooped out a starless abyss around themselves.

Scientists
Stephen HawkingJacob BekensteinAlbert EinsteinFritz ZwickyVera RubinBernhard Riemann
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black hole JWST galaxy gravitational waves
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Hawking radiationgravitational lensingBekenstein-Hawking entropyEinstein field equationsvirial theoremno-hair theorem
Original: arXiv:2603.10104 · CC BY · bridge42worlds