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Death star black holes "swiveling around and pointing at new targets"—NASA
Newsweek· 16 hours agoAccording to a new paper in The Astrophysical Journal, these jets—fired out from each black hole in...
Weird Supermassive Forces Are Making Black Holes Collide
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 7 days agoIt’s one part Mario Kart sand pit and one part Katamari Damacy in the black hole traffic jam....
Hundreds of Huge Stars Disappeared From The Sky. We May Finally Know Why.
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoIt consists of a massive star that's around 7.4 million years old and around 25 times the mass of...
Astronomers Just Calculated The Spin Speed of a Supermassive Black Hole
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 2 days agoWhen they combined this with the estimated mass of the black hole – around 2.5 million times the mass of the Sun – they were able to ...
Supermassive black hole spin measured for the first time
Cosmos· 21 hours agoFor the first time, astronomers have been able to determine how fast a black hole is spinning. The...
Scientists find weird link between a solar mystery and feeding black holes
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe solar dynamo that drives sunspots and solar flares could be located near the surface of the sun...
Webb Telescope Spots Most Distant Black Hole Merger Ever Detected
IFLScience· 6 days agoNot that these two black holes are small. “The mass of the other black hole is likely similar,...
Churning spacetime and destroyed stars help reveal how fast supermassive black holes spin
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAT2020ocn was initially spotted in optical light wavelengths by the Zwicky Transient Facility, with...
Black holes are mysterious, but deceptively simple
Arizona Daily Sun· 3 days agoResearch from the 1970s suggests that you can comprehensively describe a black hole using only three physical attributes – their mass, charge and spin.
How Can You ‘See’ a Black Hole?
Scientific American· 7 days agoBlack holes are probably the most popular astronomical objects among the public. People love a good monster story, and black holes are the scariest of...