Galactic Fusion 76 Million Light-Years Away Will See Two Massive Black Holes Collide
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Located in the constellation Aquarius, NGC 7727 is a peculiar galaxy. This odd-looking galaxy is home to two galactic nuclei,…
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New Black Hole Image by EHT Spots Never-Before-Seen Feature
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Using sophisticated algorithms, scientists have detected a sharp ring of light created by photons hitting the back of a supermassive…
Experts Say Our Universe Exists in Cycles and Must Have Had a Beginning
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New research has discovered a critical flaw in cosmological models portraying the universe’s expanding and contracting endlessly. Cosmologists propose endless…
Mysterious “Dormant” Black Hole Discovered in Deep Space
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The Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way, is home to a dormant stellar-mass black hole, according…
Star at the Heart of the Milky Way Orbits a Black Hole at 8,000km/s
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According to a research paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, a newly discovered star travels around our galaxy’s black hole…
Astronomers Find Gargantuan Black Hole That Eats One Earth Every Second
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An international team led by astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered the fastest-growing black hole in the…
Rare Free-Floating Black Hole Traveling at 30 km/s Spotted in Our Galaxy
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Gravitational microlensing may have helped astronomers find the first free-floating black hole in our galaxy. Future observations should continue to…
10 Curiosities About the Historic Black Hole Photographs
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Half a century ago, astronomers first hypothesized that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy….
NASA Video Shows 22 X-Ray Binary Systems With Confirmed Black Holes
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A new NASA visualization offers a new look at 22 X-Ray binaries in our galaxy and its neighbor, the Large…
Astronomers Prepare to Reveal “Revolutionary” Discovery in the Milky Way Galaxy
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On May 12, 2022, astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) will present the world with new information about our…
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…
Researchers Say 40 Billion Billions Black Holes Exist in Our Universe
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Black Holes are fascinating yet mysterious cosmic objects scattered across the Universe. Unfortunately, we don’t know much about them, and…
Study Claims Miniature Black Holes Smashed Into Earth and the Moon
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Researchers believe that countless miniature black holes formed shortly after the Big Bang. Traveling through space as the universe expanded,…
Top Science Priorities for the 2020s: Habitable Alien Worlds, Black Holes, Early Universe
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Once in a decade, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine compose a survey that focuses on priorities,…
Black Holes May Store Information From the Beginning of “Time”
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A group of American astrophysicists from the University of California and Columbia University has proposed a way to identify supermassive…
Ripples in Space-Time Reveal Traces of Black Holes From the Beginning of Time
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Is there a connection between dark matter and primordial black holes? What if the mysterious dark matter that scientists struggle…
Astronomers Chart 25,000 Black Holes in Stunning Cosmic Map
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An international group of astronomers has published a sky map showing over 25,000 supermassive black holes. It is the most detailed…
Advanced Alien Civilizations Are Probably Using Black Holes As Energy Sources
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In 1969, the English physicist and mathematician Roger Penrose proposed a theory that described the process of extracting energy from…
The Existence of Black Holes Questioned In a Stumping New Theory
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There are more questions about black holes than there are answers. No matter our knowledge of physics, black holes remain…
This Video Shows the Behemoth Size of Black Holes in the Universe
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The fact that the black holes do not allow the light to come out makes them difficult to observe. Scientists…
Spacefaring Aliens Could Use Black Holes to Travel Across the Universe
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Extremely advanced alien civilizations could have already developed a technology that would allow them to exploit black holes and use…
Scientist Who Won the Nobel Prize Suggests Other Universes Existed Before Ours
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Not so long ago, I finished reading Stephen Hawking’s book–his “final” book, called Brief Answers to the Big Questions. As…