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Watch 2 supermassive black holes dance around each other in a mesmerizing NASA animation
Black holes are encircled by a glowing disk of hot gas. When one black hole approaches another, its…
Aylin Woodward
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This sleeping black hole swallowed a star whole - and now it's bursting out X-rays
Astronomers have long thought that high-energy X-rays were created further from the black hole in r…
Ali Sundermier
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A black hole bigger than the sun is pulling on the fabric of space and time
Black holes are generally known for pulling in any item that crosses their path using their gravi…
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A mesmerizing NASA animation shows how a nearby black hole would warp spacetime like a fun-house mirror
The visualization first shows what a black hole would look like from the side (the way it appears i…
Aria Bendix
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Our very own black hole in the Milky Way doesn’t quite eat up ‘everything’
About 26,000 light years away from the earth and four million times the size of the sun, researc…
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The first 'groundbreaking' pictures of a black hole may be unveiled on Wednesday. Here's what scientists think those images will look like.
She added: "We can run very high resolution simulations that show a great level of detail, but I'm …
Dave Mosher
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Western Digital is buying Sandisk for $19 billion
"This transformational acquisition aligns with our long-term strategy to be an innovative leader in…
Sam Ro
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Black holes can produce light when they collide, new research shows — astronomers just saw the first-ever 'flare' from a spacetime-bending merger
Two black holes crashed together and merged within a disk of hot matter orbiting another larger bla…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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This one word is the last thing you want to hear when your company gets bought out
This is a very rough calculation, so take this with a grain of salt. But assuming half of those pot…
Sam Ro
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'Like looking at the gates of Hell': Astronomers just showed off the first picture of a black hole, and it's a monster
The EHT was seriously challenged in this regard, though. While the telescope is considered to be Ea…
Dave Mosher
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Supermassive black holes are hiding from astronomers in graveyards of dead stars
"These clouds are traveling so fast that they reach 'escape velocity' and are jettisoned in a cone-…
Dave Mosher
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The movie 'Interstellar' came out exactly 5 years ago. Since then, new discoveries have changed our understanding of black holes.
In the movie "Interstellar," a fictional black hole called Gargantua takes center stage. The film c…
Aylin Woodward
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Black holes mysteriously burp up fragments of stars they destroyed years earlier, and scientists have no idea why
Up to half of black holes studied burped up star remnants years after tearing them apart. The resea…
Marianne Guenot
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The most mind-boggling scientific discoveries of 2019 include the first image of a black hole, a giant squid sighting, and an exoplanet with water vapor
In 2019, scientists around the world pulled off some impressive feats: They imaged a supermassive b…
Aylin Woodward
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Astronomers catch a supermassive black hole doing something they've never seen before
Because the observed event was relatively close to Earth - 300 million light-years away - they were…
Lauren F Friedman
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We Can't Stop Staring At This New Glowing Pink Planet
The fact that the giant gas planet is located so far from its central star and still able to obtain…
Dina Spector
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Astronomers plan to film the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy as it gobbles up stars and planets. The video could open a 'new field' of science.
"We can see the black hole evolve in real time," Shep Doeleman, an astronomer who leads the global …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists spotted jets of hot gas whizzing out of a supermassive black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy
Authors of a new study reveal how they imaged plasma jets shooting out of a black hole nestled insi…