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Published online 6 June 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020603-1
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Black holes have ring of truth
Big black holes behave like little black holes.
Immense black holes lurking at the centres of galaxies can produce the same sort of cosmic mayhem as ordinary, star-sized black holes. Both types swallow matter from an encircling disk, while spewing out high-velocity jets of debris, astronomers have discovered.
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