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To See Black Holes in Detail, She Uses ‘Echoes’ Like a Bat

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Packed with mass equal to millions or billions of suns, supermassive black holes lurk at the center of nearly every galaxy.


The astrophysicist Erin Kara measures time lags in black holes’ X-ray glows, which reveal the complexity of the objects’ closest surroundings.