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Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.
The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...
"This pushes our models to their limits and challenges our existing ideas about how these X-ray flashes are being generated." ...
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While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...
Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...
"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer Lorena Hernández-García.
"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time literally no longer make sense." A team of scientists has developed a recipe ...
WATCH: Here’s the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our ...
New research that used imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope gives credence to a scientific theory that says the Milky Way is inside of a black hole Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They’ve certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations, even in popular ...
Languages: English and Italian. Scientists at Dartmouth and the University of Exeter have discovered that radiation emitted by supermassive black holes can have a surprising, nurturing effect on life.