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New Discovery About Supermassive Black Holes Explained!
Season 9
Episode 11
Astrophysicists have discovered a black hole that for millions of years has been blasting vast particle beams in opposite directions across the sky. And has recently swiveled to point its one of these jets directly at us.
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