Xin Li

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As of September 2026: Led the study reporting first observed gravitational-wake accretion

Astronomers have caught a wandering black hole feeding from its own wake. The 35,000-solar-mass object sits outside the star-forming disk of the dwarf galaxy UGCA 320, about 20 million light-years from Earth, pulling gas from the dense trail its gravity leaves behind.

Updated Sep 13