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Elusive medium-size black holes may form in dense 'birthing nests'
SPACE.com· 2 days agoAn intermediate-mass black hole has a mass between 100 and 10,000 suns. Designated GCIRS 13E, it has...
Andromeda’s Supermassive Black Hole Feeding Habits Revealed by NASA’s Spitzer
SciTechDaily· 5 days agoNASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope images show streams of dust feeding the supermassive black hole in...
Spin of Supermassive Black Hole Measured at a Quarter the Speed of Light
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThis week, science reporter Isaac Schultz described a groundbreaking effort to measure the spin of a...
A New Way to Measure the Rotation of Black Holes
Universe Today· 6 days agoDr. Pasham found AT2020ocn, a bright flash captured by the Zwicky Transient Facility at Palomar Observatory. Part of the star’s remnants are flung from the black hole, but part falls into the accretion disk.
Black Holes are Firing Beams of Particles, Changing Targets Over Time
Universe Today· 7 days agoBlack holes seem to provide endless fascination to astronomers. Dubbing them “Death Star” black holes, researchers used data from the Very Long Baseline ...
Scientists may have finally solved the problem of the universe’s 'missing' black holes
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 days agoPrimordial black holes are one of the strongest candidates for the universe's missing dark matter....
Cosmic Forge: The Creation of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoNew research utilizes the first-ever simulations of individual stars in forming globular clusters to...
Hot Gas is Being Vented Away from the Center of the Milky Way
Universe Today· 2 days agoThe Chandra X-Ray observatory has been observing a vent of hot gas blowing away from the centre of...
Black Holes: Why study them? What makes them so fascinating?
Universe Today· 2 days agoHere, we will discuss the fascinating and mysterious field of black holes with Dr. Gaurav Khanna,...
Vanishing Without a Trace: Why Stars Mysteriously Disappear From the Night Sky
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoAstrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen help explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars...