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Astronomers have discovered an enormous black hole from the supernova of an exploding star just 2,000 light years from Earth - and it is the most massive black hole in the Milky Way so far

An international research team at the All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) centre used three telescopes to look at 91 pairs of twin star - and found some showed evidence of 'eating' planets

Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have characterised a bright quasar, finding it to be not only the brightest of its kind, but also the most luminous object ever observed