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Black Hole

Astronomers Find a New Kind of Cosmic Object: A Black Hole Wrapped in Gas That Glows Like a Star

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 17, 2026
A telescope beneath a starry night sky at an astronomical observatory

According to the team’s model, MoM-BH-1 may be a black hole star: a supermassive black hole so completely wrapped in hydrogen gas that, from a distance, it looks

Categories Technology Tags Big Bang, Black Hole, Cosmic Dawn, Jorryt Matthee, MIT Kavli Institute, MoM-BH, Star
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