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Are stars vanishing into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says 'yes'
SPACE.com· 48 minutes agoScientists have discovered strong evidence that some massive stars end their existence with a...
'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan!...
Space via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoSupermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation...
Death star black holes "swiveling around and pointing at new targets"—NASA
Newsweek· 20 hours agoAccording to a new paper in The Astrophysical Journal, these jets—fired out from each black hole in...
We’ve Finally Seen Matter Plunge into a Black Hole
Scientific American· 24 hours 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 ...
Supermassive black hole spin measured for the first time
Cosmos· 1 day agoFor the first time, astronomers have been able to determine how fast a black hole is spinning. The...
Scientists clocked a black hole spinning at a quarter of light speed
Quartz· 24 hours agoA team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin...
Tiny black holes hiding in the sun could trace out stunning patterns
New Scientist· 3 hours agoIf our solar system and even our sun contain tiny black holes formed just after the big bang, they...
Black hole singularities defy physics. New research could finally do away with them.
Live Science via Yahoo News· 6 days agoBlack hole singularities defy the laws of physics. New research presents a bold solution to this...
JWST Spots Most Distant Black Hole Merger Yet
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 3 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...
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....