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We’ve Finally Seen Matter Plunge into a Black Hole
Scientific American· 2 days agoBlack holes stretch the fabric of spacetime to its extreme—and the closer you get to one, the more warped things get. “You can be really very close to a ...
Groundbreaking Measurement Reveals a Black Hole Spinning at a Quarter the Speed of Light
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin...
Webb Space Telescope uncovers earliest known merger of black holes
The Columbian· 5 days agoCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes. These two gigantic black holes and their galaxies consolidated just 740 million years after the
Supermassive Black Hole’s Spin Measured For The First Time With Destroyed Star
IFLScience· 3 days agoTidal disruption events (TDEs) are bright releases of energy caused by a supermassive black hole having a snack. Part of the snack is thrown out, but the ...
Churning spacetime and destroyed stars help reveal how fast supermassive black holes spin
SPACE.com· 3 days agoThe "wobbling" remains of a star that suffered a grisly death at the maw of a supermassive black ...
Churning spacetime and destroyed stars help reveal how fast supermassive black holes spin
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn the background, a vibrant pink accretion disk is seen swirling around a black hole's singularity....
Right again, Einstein! Scientists find where matter 'waterfalls' into black holes
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoEinstein was right! Scientists found the first-ever evidence of "plunging regions" of spacetime...
Black holes are mysterious, but deceptively simple
Arizona Daily Sun· 4 days agoResearch from the 1970s suggests that you can comprehensively describe a black hole using only three physical attributes – their mass, charge and spin.
Study proves black holes have a ‘plunging region,’ just as Einstein predicted
AccuWeather· 5 days agoNASA’s space-based NuSTAR telescope, seen here in an artist’s concept, was used for the first time...
JWST Spots Most Distant Black Hole Merger Yet
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 5 days agoFrom 13 billion light-years across the gulf of space and time, we've just caught a glimpse of the most distant black hole merger discovered yet. Using...