Astronomers identify one of the universe's rarest black hole events
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- Velocity & Diffusion: Coverage escalated across 10 distinct news outlets with 11 published articles, achieving a live velocity of 9.
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"Astronomers identify one of the universe's rarest black hole events" is generating significant coverage in the Science category, with 11 articles from 10 distinct sources tracked by Newsylist so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include Gizmodo, ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos, ScienceDaily and IFLScience. Newsylist measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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The reporting (11)
- Astronomers Spotted a Wandering Black Hole at the Edge of Its Galaxy. Then It Found a Snack Gizmodo · 46d ago
- NASA captures rare phenomenon of a black hole 'devouring' a star ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos · 46d ago
- Blazing like 10 billion suns: NASA’s Swift sees a wandering black hole devouring a star ScienceDaily · 46d ago
- A Massive Black Hole Destroyed A Star In An Unexpected Location, Providing More Evidence That These Giants Can Wander IFLScience · 46d ago
- Super rare black hole devours unlucky star Popular Science · 46d ago
- A supermassive black hole revealed itself with a flash of light, shown at the center of this image in blue, as it wandered the edge of a galaxy. EurekAlert! · 46d ago
- First-ever ‘wandering’ black hole spotted at the edge of a galaxy EurekAlert! · 46d ago
- UNC-Chapel Hill Astronomers Detect One of the Universe’s Rarest Black Hole Events Bioengineer.org · 46d ago
- We’ve found the best example yet of an enormous wandering black hole New Scientist · 46d ago
- NASA’s Swift Sees ‘Wandering’ Mega Black Hole Shredding Star NASA Science (.gov) · 46d ago
- Astronomers identify one of the universe's rarest black hole events Phys.org · 46d ago broke it first
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