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Millions of black holes are speeding around the Milky Way after being kicked at birth
Travelling at speeds greater than 70 kilometers per second — that’s 252,000 kilometers per hou…
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Black holes can speed through the universe at 17,500 miles per second, scientists say and the discovery could reveal new laws of physics
The discovery could change how we understand "the smallest to the largest objects in the universe,"…
Sonam Sheth,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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Astronomers find 2 supermassive black holes — the nearest to Earth ever discovered — are merging into a 'monster'
Scientists said the pair of black holes is 89 million light-years away from Earth in the NGC 7727 g…
Jake Epstein,Morgan McFall-Jo…
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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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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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Hubble has found a black hole disk that should be non-existent
The disk is so close to black hole’s gravitational pull that even light is having a ha…
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Astronomers just saw a monster black hole shoot a plasma bullet at 20% the speed of light
Years of observing black holes show many of them are shrouded with a shroud of glowing-hot plasma, …
Kelly Dickerson
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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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A 'mind-boggling' telescope observation has revealed the point of no return for our galaxy's monster black hole
On big scales, it's a window into the history and evolution of the Milky Way galaxy, which rotates …
Dave Mosher
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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 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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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…
Aylin Woodward
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A Recent Physics Paper Suggests That Black Holes Don't Exist - Here's The Argument
The only way to get a better understanding of black holes, therefore, is through computer models th…
Jessica Orwig
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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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Scientists are baffled by a small cloud that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole
Not only did G2 survive, it got a nice boost in speed and is now moving away from the black hole at…
Jessica Orwig
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Stephen Hawking's famous prediction about black holes was just observed for the first time ever
Thinking about entanglement, Steinhauer said, is important to understanding something called the in…
Ali Sundermier
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A 'hole' 30 times Earth's size has spread across the sun, blasting solar winds that'll hit our planet by end of this week
A giant coronal hole, spotted Monday, is releasing rapid solar winds expected to reach Earth on Mar…