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This Black Hole is a Total Underachiever

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Quasar H1821+643 is located 3.4 billion light-years away from Earth at the center of a cluster of galaxies. Researchers studied X-ray data from the Chandra observatory and found it influenced its local environment much less than expected. However, the quasar itself isn't cooling the gas surrounding it, at least not much.

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This Black Hole is a Total Underachiever

Anyone can be an underachiever, even if you’re an astronomical singularity weighing over four billion times the mass of the Sun. At least the quasar H1821+643 doesn’t have parents to be disappointed in it. But its underachievement could shed light on how quasars, a potent type of black hole, can come to influence entire clusters of galaxies, as described in a new paper from researchers at the University of Nottingham and Harvard. Using X-ray da…

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