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Black holes are rampaging through our universe at more than 2.2 million mph and scientists think they now know why
Scientists simulating the death of supermassive stars witnessed an unusual kick that sometimes occu…
Maiya Focht
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A bizarre galaxy NASA spotted at the edge of the universe could upend what we know about supermassive black holes
A very early galaxy puzzling scientists suggests supermassive black holes may not have come from de…
Marianne Guenot
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope broke its own record to discover the oldest black hole yet, but it has astronomers even more confused about the beginning of the universe
Webb spotted the oldest black hole ever discovered, breaking its own record. But the black hole is …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Research suggests synthetic black holes radiate like real ones
To fully describe black holes, these two theories need to be stitched together to form a theor…
ANI
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Beyoncé is upending country music. These 5 Black country artists are already feeling the effects.
Beyoncé's new album "Cowboy Carter" has sparked conversations about country music's history and dra…
Callie Ahlgrim
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James Webb Space Telescope spots a supermassive black hole in the early universe, much sooner after the Big Bang than scientists can explain
NASA's Webb telescope spotted an active supermassive black hole that existed 570 million years afte…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Jenny M…
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A brilliant cosmic burst 100 times as bright as our galaxy came from 2 black holes circling each other, study finds
Scientists said the bright flare occurred after one of the black holes crashed through a gaseous di…
Chris Panella,Jessica Orwig
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Supermassive black hole bigger than 7 billion Suns is spinning so fast that it's close to breaking the laws of physics
Chandra’s X-ray data showed that M87 was spinning between 2.4 to 6.3 times faster than the speed of…
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Supermassive black holes grew from mysterious ‘seeds’ that are yet to be found
Black holes are one of the most mysterious objects in outer space whose origins continue to perplex…
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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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Colliding black holes the size of Lucknow merged to create light for the first time
A black hole merger between two partner black holes — with a combined mass of 150 suns but only as …
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Black women are worn out from discrimination in corporate America. They're leaving to launch their own businesses, creating a hole for talent across industries.
Tired of racism and microaggressions, some Black women in corporate America are breaking into entre…
Alexandra York,Marguerite Ward
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A black hole spewed out material equivalent to 500 Empire State Buildings at nearly the speed of light — and NASA caught it on video
This black hole and its companion star make up the system called MAXI J1820+070 located within t…
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A rare trio of supermassive black holes spotted as three galaxies collide
Located a billion light years away from Earth, the collision doesn't pose any threat to th…
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There was a big spark — 75 times brighter than usual — from the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way
Our solar system, the Milky Way, has a supermassive black hole at the heart of it and it just shine…
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'Oppenheimer' fact v. fiction: What the movie got right and wrong according to a nuclear historian
Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is historically accurate in many ways, but it's still a work of f…
Jenny McGrath
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New stars running from the death of their own galaxies means our Milky Way might survive
These stars are migrant refugees fleeing from their own dwarf galaxies — known as Magellanic Clo…
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The ‘fuzzy’ photo of the black hole could soon be sharp as a knife
The satellites would have telescopes on board and since all of this is up in space — the t…
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ISRO, NASA just spotted a black hole spinning so fast that it could be making space itself rotate
Those X-rays were caused by gas and dust falling into the black hole, which is about 10 time…
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Astronomers found the closest black hole to Earth — and there could be millions more like it
Scientists usually find black holes by detecting X-rays they emit as they devour nearby stars. But …