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Eric Abril, who escaped from a Northern California medical facility on Sunday, has been captured, according to authorities. A murder suspect who escaped from a Northern California medical facility on Sunday has been captured following a massive manhunt, authorities said. Eric Abril, a suspect in Northern California hostage-taking homicide and shootout with police, was caught on Monday afternoon, according to the Placer County Sheriff's Office. Abril was captured at 12:45 p.m. after being spotted in a residential area in Rocklin, California, roughly 6 miles from where he escaped, law enforcement sources told ABC affiliate station KXTV in Sacramento. Abril was one of three murder suspects to escape in separate incidents across the country between Thursday night and Sunday morning, authorities said. More than 70 law enforcement officers from multiple agencies, including the Rocklin Police Department, were involved in the search for Abril. The 35-year-old Abril escaped just after 3 a.m...

The bending of light as its path veers around a giant, invisible mass has revealed the presence of one of the biggest black holes yet detected in the Universe. In a galaxy at the center of a massive cluster named Abell 1201, some 2.7 billion light-years away, lurks a cosmic colossus. Not content with being super massive , the monster is an ultra massive black hole, clocking in at around 32.7 billion times the mass of the Sun. The new figure exceeds previous estimates by at least 7 billion solar masses, demonstrating the power of curved light for measuring masses with precision. “This particular black hole, which is roughly 30 billion times the mass of our Sun, is one of the biggest ever detected and on the upper limit of how large we believe black holes can theoretically become, so it is an extremely exciting discovery,” explains physicist James Nightingale of Durham University in the UK. There are a lot of black holes out there in the Universe, but unless they’re active...