“We were able to follow an Earth-sized clump of matter for about a day, as it was pulled towards the black hole, accelerating to a third of the velocity of light before being swallowed up by the hole.” - Professor Ken Pounds, University of Leicester, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy.

“The galaxy we were observing with XMM-Newton has a 40 million solar mass black hole which is very bright and evidently well fed." - Professor Ken Pounds, University of Leicester, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy.

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