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X-ray telescope finds something unexpected with the 'heartbeat black hole'NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) telescope has detected unexpected X-ray polarization from the "heartbeat black hole," formally known as IGR J17091-3624.
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Scientists think they detected the first known triple black hole system in the universe — and then watched it dieChinese astronomers have spotted a hidden supermassive black hole in the background of a peculiar gravitational wave event from a black hole merger, hinting that all three singularities were locked in a never-before-seen triple system.
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Giant, cosmic 'Eye of Sauron' snapped staring directly at us in stunning 15-year time-lapse photoResearchers have combined 15 years' worth of radio data to peer through the cone of a high-energy jet and unravel the magnetic mysteries of a "blazar" billions of light-years from Earth. The new findings also shed light on the origin of elusive "ghost particles."
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Colossal black hole 36 billion times the mass of our sun is one of the largest ever seen in the universeWe know little about how young galaxies and their black holes grew up.
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Scientists use Stephen Hawking theory to propose 'black hole morsels' — strange, compact objects that could reveal new physicsViolent black hole collisions may create black hole 'morsels' no larger than an asteroid — and these bizarre objects could pave the way to unlocking new physics, a study claims.
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James Webb telescope spots earliest black hole in the known universe, looking 'as far back as you can practically go'Astronomers using the James Webb telescope have zoomed in on a 'Little Red Dot' that existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang, and found that it may contain the earliest known black hole in the universe.
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Paperclip-sized spacecraft could visit a nearby black hole in the next century, study claimsAn astrophysicist has made a daring proposal to send a nano-sized spacecraft to the heart of a black hole.
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Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggestsA beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that the black hole is actually part of the most extreme binary system known.
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See the universe's rarest type of black hole slurp up a star in stunning animationAstronomers believe they have spotted an elusive intermediate-mass black hole shredding a distant star, and they have re-created the stellar murder in a stunning new animation.
