An artist's impression of a fast-expanding supermassive black hole from far away. (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab)Astronomers have detected the brightest and fastest-growing black hole to have existed in the last 9 billion years. The enormous cosmic...
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In an international collaboration, Earth scientists at the University of Cologne and Freie Universität Berlin discovered that some magmas on Earth, which made their way through the deep terrestrial mantle and erupted at Earth's surface, originate from mantle portions...
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