Groundbreaking Achievement: Astronomers Photograph Our Galaxy’s Black Hole
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What is the Event Horizon Telescope? The EHT (Event Horizon Telescope) is a global ultra-long baseline radio interferometer operating at…
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NASA Turns Astronomical Data Into Sound–This is What a Black Hole Sounds Like
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Although Black Holes do not allow anything to escape their mighty gravity pull, we can hear what a black hole…
Hubble Spots the Birth of a Supermassive Black Hole in Outer Space
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Astronomers have discovered a “link” between ordinary galaxies and quasars in the young Universe. Judging by the properties, this is…
Unexpected Discovery In Deep Space Reveals Black Hole Spinning Sideways
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Astronomers discovered a unique spinning black hole. For the first time, they measured with great precision the angle between the…
Astronomers Spot Free-Floating Black Hole Moving Through Interstellar Space
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We can define a black hole as a region of space in which the attraction of gravity is so strong…
Cosmic “Cows” Cause Weird Black Hole and Neutron Star Glow
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Astronomers have discovered the fifth and brightest representative of cosmic “cows” – an unusual class of flashes of massive stars…
Astronomers Spot Black Hole Unlike Any Other in Neighboring Galaxy
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Detecting stellar-mass and supermassive black holes By themselves, black holes do not radiate and remain invisible to telescopes operating in…
Check Out Clearest Image of Relativistic Jets Near Black Hole Binary
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Astronomers have found new evidence that a binary system of supermassive black holes is located at the core of the…
Scientists Find Black Hole That Creates Stars Instead of Devouring Them
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Although we do not know much about black holes, we understand that these mysterious objects are cosmic monsters with the…
Study Claims Spacecraft Could Travel Through Cosmic Wormholes To Reach Distant Galaxies
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Wormholes that allow rapid travel to another part of the universe, or even travel in time, may not only be…
Black Hole 9,600 Light-Years From Earth Sports Unexpected Feature
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Ground-based and space telescopes have helped astronomers determine that the accretion disk around the black hole in the MAXI J1820…
NASA Telescope Spots Massive Rings Around a Black Hole
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American scientists using NASA’s Chandra and Swift space observatories have captured a bright short-lived phenomenon – a sequence of concentric rings around a black hole, which are echoes from X-ray flares. Such images of giant X-ray rings provide new information about the dust contained in our Galaxy.
Astronomers Spot Light Behind Supermassive Black Hole
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For the first time in the history of observations, astronomers have recorded X-rays reflected from the far side of the…
Researchers See Tidal Disruption of Star by Supermassive Black Hole
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The Spektr-RG Space Observatory has helped astronomers see the early stages of the tidal disruption of a star by a…
Black Hole Devours Neutron Star And Scientists Catch First Ever Glimpse
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The LIGO and Virgo observatories were the first to reliably register gravitational waves from the merger of a neutron star…
Scientists Are Working on a Photo of the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
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In the central region of the Milky Way, at a distance of 26 thousand light-years from the Sun, there is…
This Black Hole May Be Closest To Earth— 10 Things You Need To Know
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The dark companion of the red giant V723 Mon has become a candidate for the closest black hole to Earth….
Are Wormholes Massive Cosmic Tunnels Through Which Spacecraft Can Travel?
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Over the past few weeks, we discussed several hypothetical ways for fast interstellar travel – warp drive and MEGA drive….
Scientists Spot Supermassive Black Hole Moving at 110,000 Miles Per Hour
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For the first time in history, researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (USA) clearly recorded the case of a…
A Supermassive Black Hole Has Seemingly Disappeared Baffling Experts
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Yes, you read that correctly – scientists confirmed that a black hole is missing. And more curiously, not any black…
Let’s Take a Moment to Again Appreciate the First Image of a Black Hole
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Learning more about new or old cosmic places is always a pleasure and always a significant moment for science and…
So, What Would A Camera Show If It Fell Into A Black Hole?
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Hypothetically, if we launch a probe with a camera towards a black hole which will transmit a video signal in…