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Astrophysicists Hunt for Second-Closest Supermassive Black Hole

Two astrophysicists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and the Black Hole Initiative have suggested a way to observe what could be the second-closest supermassive black hole to Earth: a behemoth 3 million times the mass of the Sun, hosted by the dwarf galaxy Leo I. 

Read the full press release here: CfA press release (November 28, 2022)