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black hole
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How Do You Get Black Holes to Spin Fast?
Black holes seem like an immobile, immense entity out in space—but these massive gravitational behemoths do spin, and…
Can We Destroy Black Holes?
Assume a black hole is even coming our way, or perhaps our planet happens to approach one, and…
What Would You See If You Fell Into a Black Hole?
This is all hypothetical, of course, but imagine you’re about to fall into a black hole. What would…
Scientists Report First-ever Detection of Oscillating Signal from Galactic Black Hole System
An international team of scientists has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting a unique signal in the radio…
Astronomers “Hear” Gravitational Waves Through the First-Ever Detection of a “Celestial Hum”
Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting the cosmic hum of gravitational waves generated by black hole…
Using a detector the size of a galaxy, astronomers find strongest evidence yet for gravitational waves from supermassive black hole pairs
OzGrav / Swinburne / Carl Knox Daniel Reardon, Swinburne University of Technology and Andrew Zic, CSIRO When black…
Invisible “Monster” Black Hole Racing Through Space Leaves 200,000-Light-Year-Long Trail of Newborn Stars
NASA‘s Hubble Space Telescope has captured an unusual trail of newborn stars left by a supermassive black hole…
Black holes may be the source of mysterious dark energy that makes up most of the universe
black hole. Chris Pearson, The Open University and Dave Clements, Imperial College London Black holes could explain a…
How could we detect atom-sized primordial black holes?
Artist’s rendition of a concentration of small black holes in the centre of the galaxy NGC 6397. ESA/Hubble,…
Astronomers witness the dying flare of a star torn apart by a black hole halfway across the Universe
An unlucky star is torn apart by the strong gravity of a black hole, leading to the launching…