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A black hole wrapped in starlight, and the question it isn’t quite answering

A black hole wrapped in starlight, and the question it isn’t quite answering

Aug 15, 2026 | Journal

Three days ago a paper in Nature named an object MoM-BH\-1, and the name is half the news. The asterisk is on purpose. MoM stands for "Mirage or Miracle," a survey the authors were running when the object dropped into their crosshairs; the BH\ is shorthand...

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