Black holes are spinning faster than expected, researchers find
There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...
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Astronomers find hundreds of 'hidden' black holes — and there may be billions or even trillions more
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
Scientific American4d
This Supermassive Black Hole May Harbor a Bizarre Star That Refuses to Die
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...
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James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: 'This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem'
"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...
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Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at us
The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN7d
Astronomers Found Strange, Accelerating X-Ray Pulses Coming From a Black Hole. They Might Be a Sign of an Orbiting White Dwarf
The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...
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New research suggests more supermassive black holes than we ever knew
Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...
Universe's earliest black holes found? NASA's James Webb spots three 12.8-billion-year-old 'mysterious red dots'
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals mysterious 'little red dots' in the distant universe, sparking new theories on ...
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Largest Black Hole Found Yet Revealed Through Gravitational Lensing
Learn how a "black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away" using gravitational ...
Science News8d
How we might finally find black holes from the cosmic dawn
After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.
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Astronomers investigate black hole jets with Event Horizon Telescope
"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...
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Supermassive black hole births jets, hosts orbiting white dwarf, all while astronomers watch
Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...