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A supermassive black hole is speeding through space, and astronomers don’t know why

YOUR FIRST CONTACT WITH THE UNIVERSE

A supermassive black hole is racing across the universe at 177,000 kilometres (110,000 miles) per hour, and the astronomers who spotted it don’t know why. The fast-moving black hole, which is roughly 3 million times heavier than our Sun, is

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