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'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan!...
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSupermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation...
A New Way to Measure the Rotation of Black Holes
Universe Today· 13 hours 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.
Keir Starmer aims to end questions about his leadership in first major election campaign speech
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoThe Labour leader’s “presidential” speech comes as the Tories have accused him of threatening to...
Groundbreaking Measurement Reveals a Black Hole Spinning at a Quarter the Speed of Light
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 4 days agoA team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin...
Right again, Einstein! Scientists find where matter 'waterfalls' into black holes
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoEinstein was right! Scientists found the first-ever evidence of "plunging regions" of spacetime...
We’ve Finally Seen Matter Plunge into a Black Hole
Scientific American· 4 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 ...
Webb Space Telescope uncovers earliest known merger of black holes
The Columbian· 7 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 spin measured for the first time
Cosmos· 4 days agoFor the first time, astronomers have been able to determine how fast a black hole is spinning. The...
First proof that 'plunging regions' exist around black holes in space
Phys.org· 1 day agoAn international team led by researchers at Oxford University Physics have proved Einstein was correct about a key prediction concerning black holes. Using X-ray data to test Einstein's theory ...
Churning spacetime and destroyed stars help reveal how fast supermassive black holes spin
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIn the background, a vibrant pink accretion disk is seen swirling around a black hole's singularity....