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2,076 black holes are lurking in this photo
The image above shows a piece of the sky in the constellation Fornax, and it's about 16 arcminutes …
Dave Mosher
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A pair of supermassive black holes are stuck in a collision between galaxies. Astronomers caught the chaos on camera.
"This galaxy is so complex that we could never know what is going on inside it without these detail…
Aria Bendix,Aria Bendix
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We just got the first-ever photograph of a black hole 3 million times the size of earth. Some people think it looks like a 'smudge on the lens.'
Researchers from 40 nations spent around 13 years capturing the image of the black hole, which is 6…
Sinéad Baker,Sinéad Baker,Sin…
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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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A mesmerizing photo shows powerful magnetic fields swirling around a black hole
The image illustrates that magnetic fields are strong enough to prevent some matter from getting su…
Aria Bendix
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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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NASA image may show first-ever 'rogue' supermassive black hole, leaving a trail of newborn stars in its wake
A supermassive black hole may have been kicked out of its galaxy after two other black holes moved …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The scientists who photographed a supermassive black hole for the first time just won a $3 million prize. Here's their groundbreaking image.
"As a cloud of gas gets closer to the black hole, they speed up and heat up," Josephine Peters, an …
Aria Bendix
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This new photo of a supermassive black hole is unlike any before, showing powerful magnetic fields spiraling around it
A new photo of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole taken from the Event Horizon Telescope shows…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Meet the black hole at the center of our galaxy: Scientists just took its picture for the first time
Researchers unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of our gal…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Paola R…
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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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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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The first-ever picture of a black hole is fuzzy. These incredible illustrations help explain what it shows.
The black hole weighs about as much as 6.5 billion suns, and the shadow of its event horizon - wher…
Dave Mosher
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27 stunning photos of the cosmos taken this year
This has also been a year of photographic innovation. Researchers stitched together thousands of Hu…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dana Va…
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Artificial intelligence may have just given astronomers a better idea of what black holes really look like
A machine learning algorithm created by researchers seems to have provided a clearer image of the M…
Aaron McDade
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A supermassive black hole is actually losing energy instead of gobbling it all up, new research shows
Scientists have long believed that magnetic fields could suck energy out of black holes, but they d…
Sonam Sheth
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Black hole image supports Einstein's theory of gravity, disappointing scientists who are probing for cracks
Researchers captured the first image of our galaxy's supermassive black hole. It could help confirm…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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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…