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Why are some black holes bigger than others? An astronomer explains how these celestial vacuums grow

  • Written by Jaclyn Champagne, JASPER Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Arizona
imageBlack holes use gravity to pull matter into them. NASA/Chandra X-ray Observatory/M.Weiss via APimage

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