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Astronauts · United StatesJames Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA said in a statement on Friday.See the Story
Commander of Apollo 13 mission, Jim Lovell, dies
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SpaceAstronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the theoretical upper limit of what is possible in the universe and is 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.See the Story
36 Billion Solar Masses: Cosmic Horseshoe Galaxy Harbors What May Be the Most Massive Black Hole Ever Detected
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