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Do black holes explode?Black holes go boom in several ways.
By Paul Sutter Published
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1st image of our galaxy's 'black hole heart' unveiledThe enormous black hole is four million times the mass of our sun
By Ben Turner Published
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Ultra-rare black hole ancestor detected at the dawn of the universeScientists may have detected the first known 'transitioning red quasar' in the universe, dating to just 750 million years after the Big Bang.
By Brandon Specktor Published
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We may finally be able to test one of Stephen Hawking's most far-out ideasThe recently launched James Webb Telescope should help determine if dark matter is made up of primordial black holes.
By Paul Sutter Published
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Black hole jet ejected by supermassive black hole is shaped like a helixAn extraordinary galactic jet ejected from a supermassive black hole boasts a corkscrew-like helical structure, new ground-based telescope views reveal.
By Samantha Mathewson Published
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How many black holes are there in the universe?Opinion In a recent study, researchers determined that about 1% of all the "normal" (that is, not dark) matter in the universe is bound up inside black holes.
By Paul Sutter Published
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Black holes may be growing as the universe expandsThe hypothesis could help to explain the weird discrepancies spotted in space-time ripples from enormous black hole collisions.
By Ben Turner Published
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Astronomers capture strange image of 'dancing ghosts' in the night skyScientists think they know the origin of the image, but they’re still baffled by its bizarre shape.
By Ben Turner Published
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Supermassive black holes could host giant, swirling gas 'tsunamis'Could gas escaping the gravitational grasp of supermassive black holes be forming "tsunamis" in space?
By Chelsea Gohd Published