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Astronomers Detect Black Hole 36 Billion Times the Sun’s Mass, Among Largest Ever Found
Astronomers have measured the weight of a huge black hole — 36 billion times the mass of our sun, or six times the size of our entire solar system — in an old and dead galaxy near Earth. This cosmic monster resides in one of the largest galaxies of the Cosmic Horseshoe,
"We're now entering an era where we can automatically catch these rare events as they happen, not just after the fact." ...
An international team of astronomers using NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding ...
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Scientists use Stephen Hawking theory to propose 'black hole morsels' — strange, compact objects that could reveal new physics
Violent black hole collisions may create black hole 'morsels' no larger than an asteroid — and these bizarre objects could ...
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Star Trying to Swallow a Black Hole May Have Triggered a New Type of Supernova
The scenario closest to the observations, the researchers determined, involved a massive dying star and a compact object such ...
Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with them. A recent discovery of one of the strangest supernovas ever observed ...
The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.
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A Black Hole Hitting A Star Created A Never-Before-Seen Supernova
“Our analysis shows that the blast was sparked by a catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, and is the strongest evidence to date that such close interactions can actually detonate a star, ...
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James Webb telescope spots earliest black hole in the known universe, looking 'as far back as you can practically go'
Astronomers using the James Webb telescope have zoomed in on a 'Little Red Dot' that existed just 500 million years after the ...
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