Black Hole
Ancient Black Hole Collision Spotted, Occurred Shortly After the Big Bang
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The cutting-edge Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant black hole merger yet, which occurred when the universe was just 740 ...
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will hunt for the universe’s 1st stars — or their shredded corpses, anyway
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NASA’s forthcoming Nancy Grace Roman Telescope could use the grisly death of stars ripped apart by black holes to hunt the universe’s ...
See this galaxy’s bright center? It’s home to a voracious supermassive black hole
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Step aside, Shark Week. NASA’s Black Hole Week is our favorite celebration of really cool (and sometimes terrifying) things. This year, it’s ...
NASA simulation mimics flying into black hole’s “point of no return”
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A new “immersive visualization” will allow users to experience the plunging into a black hole and falling beyond the “point of no ...
Astronomers spot a massive ‘sleeping giant’ black hole less than 2,000 light-years from Earth
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers have spotted ...
Gravitational waves reveal 1st-of-its-kind merger between neutron star and mystery object
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Astronomers announced on April 5 that they may have detected a collision between a neutron star and a lightweight mystery object — ...
Zombie Stars at the Milky Way’s Core Defy Time
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Northwestern University’s new research using simulations of 1,000 stars around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, reveals that high-speed stellar ...
Event Horizon Telescope reveals magnetic fields around the Milky Way’s central black hole
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13 Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration have found strong magnetic fields spiraling around the supermassive black hole at the ...
Most quasars are a ferocious force of nature, but not this one
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A composite image of the quasar H1821+643, with X-ray data from Chandra in blue and radio wavelength data from the Very Large ...
Why are some supermassive black hole jets so short? Astronomers may have cracked the case
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A new investigation into a rare and short-lived type of galaxy has revealed that such objects harbor slumbering supermassive black holes that ...
