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Supermassive black hole is eating meals worth four Moons thrice a day
In fact, the phenomenon was so unprecedented that scientists had to coin a new phrase for it —…
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An 'ultramassive' black hole has been discovered that's 33 billion times the mass of the sun
Scientists at Durham University in the UK used the way gravity bends light at great distances to pi…
Marianne Guenot
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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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Gravitational waves were not the only first-ever finding today
"Having gravitational waves as a tool will enable us to study black holes, and black holes hold the…
Sean Kane
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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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Invisible massive galaxies producing 1,000 suns a year could rewrite how the universe works
Billions of light years away and invisible to the naked eye, 39 massive galaxies are generating sta…
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Scientists capture first direct image of a supermassive black hole, 6.5 billion times the size of the sun, spewing out jets of plasma
Astronomers hope the discovery will help us understand exactly how these jets are created — s…
Marianne Guenot
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Stephen Hawking's daughter says her father would have been 'blown away' by the first ever image of a black hole
Stephen Hawking contributed revolutionary theories to the study of black holes. One of his most fam…
Beatrice Christofaro,Beatrice…
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Astrophysicists Claim To Have Proven There Are No Such Things As Black Holes - Here's Why They're Wrong
One of the most difficult challenges of studying this giant star collapse is recreating the point w…
Jessica Orwig
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Astronomers spot the biggest cosmic explosion ever seen, and it's 100 times the size of our solar system
The blast, which is 2 trillion times brighter than the sun, may have been caused by a supermassive …
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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A NASA image shows the center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail. Expect far more revealing photos from a soon-to-launch telescope.
JWST will study every phase of the universe's history in order to learn about how the first stars a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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The most awe-inspiring scientific discoveries of the decade include the 'God particle,' the first image of a black hole, and the ability to edit the human genome
In the last decade, scientists around the world pulled off impressive feats: They imaged a supermas…
Aylin Woodward
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The black hole at the center of our galaxy just belched two giant bubbles of radiation
Hints of the structures first emerged in the 1980s, when astronomer and physicist Farhad Yusef-Zade…
Michelle Starr
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Astronomers finally have a way to track objects that don't emit light
Gravitational waves might also bridge quantum physics (the physics of the very small) with classica…
Kelly Dickerson
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Almost everyone this top Citi strategist talked to in Asia thinks the global economy is a black hole
"The prevailing view is that the global economy is like a shopping mall on the rocks. One anchor st…
Bob Bryan
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Britain's biggest companies could have easily filled the £40 billion pension black hole - but chose not to
"The collapse of BHS and the potential sale of Tata Steel UK, both with underfunded pension schemes…