Astronomers Unveil Enormous Water Reservoir Around a Distant Quasar
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Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery: a massive reservoir of water encircling a quasar over 12 billion light-years away. This…
Black Holes
Astronomers have identified an extraordinary black hole in the early universe
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Astronomers have uncovered a massive black hole lurking in the early universe, just 800 million years after the Big Bang….
A Pair of Stars Found Orbiting Each Other Close to the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
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Researchers have identified the first pair of stars orbiting each other near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the…
Are Alien Civilizations Building Energy-Harvesting Megastructures Around Primordial Black Holes?
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Could the oldest black holes in the universe hold the secret to discovering extraterrestrial life? Iranian cosmologist Shant Baghram has…
Are Black Holes Behind the Strange Star Movements in Omega Centauri?
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For decades, the enigmatic star movements in Omega Centauri—the largest and most massive star cluster in the Milky Way—have puzzled…
Are Primordial Black Holes Eating Planets From Within?
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In today’s universe, black holes typically form when massive stars—those at least 20 times the mass of our Sun—exhaust their…
Gravitational Wave Background Map Reveals Potential Supermassive Black Hole Collision
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Researchers have unveiled the most detailed map of the gravitational wave background to date, thanks to the cutting-edge MeerKAT radio…
How One Black Hole’s Destruction of a Star Set the Stage for a New Celestial Mystery
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In a spectacular display of cosmic forces, a supermassive black hole that devoured a nearby star has now set its…
Scientists Just Discovered How Black Hole Spin Alters Ultraluminous Accretion Disks in a Way We Never Expected
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If you were to ask me what my favorite object in the universe is, I would probably say black holes….
Supermassive Black Hole Jet Ignites Explosive Star Eruptions
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Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have stumbled upon an unexpected cosmic interaction in the galaxy M87. A powerful jet…
Is Our Solar System at Risk of Being Consumed by the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole?
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The universe is filled with mysteries, and among the most captivating are black holes. These enigmatic entities push the boundaries…
Insights into Supernova Explosions and Black Holes
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The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), launched last year, has already produced remarkable scientific results that could reshape our…
Black Holes or Frozen Stars? New Study Challenges Einstein’s Theory
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For decades, black holes have captivated the scientific world, presenting paradoxes that seem to challenge our understanding of the universe….
Exploring the Universe’s Earliest Black Hole Mergers through Future Gravitational Wave Observatories
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The discovery of gravitational waves marked a turning point in astronomy, allowing us to detect and observe the most extreme…
Could Primordial Black Holes Be Hiding in Our Solar System?
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Black holes have long fascinated astronomers, with three distinct types observed across the universe. Stellar-mass black holes emerge from the…
Black Hole ‘Starving’ Its Host Galaxy of Star-Forming Fuel, Say Astronomers
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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a groundbreaking discovery, confirming that supermassive black holes can cut off…
Five Surprising Coincidences in Physics Revealed in Harvard’s Astrophysics Class
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The academic year has just started at Harvard University, and Professor Avi Loeb is teaching “Radiative Processes in Astrophysics.” This…
Unveiling Quantum Mysteries with the Black Hole Atom
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In the vast expanses of our universe, where the improbable becomes possible, mini black holes, reminiscent of kilometer-sized asteroids yet…
Scientists Confirm Most of the Universe Is Darkness—And Little Else
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The universe is overwhelmingly dark, with very little light. Thanks to NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, scientists have now made the…
Scientists Recreate Black Hole’s Powerful Particle Jets in Groundbreaking Lab Experiment
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For the first time, scientists have simulated the immense particle jets spewed by supermassive black holes using a laboratory-based experiment…
Advanced Extraterrestrials Probably Use “Miniature Black Holes” As Quantum Computers
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Scientists believe that quantum mechanics will help humankind take the next step into the future. But they also believe that…
Black Hole “throws up” stellar remains 3 years after eating a star
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Four years ago, in October 2018, a small star came too close to a black hole located in a galaxy…