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Black hole spin speed revealed in new study of churning space-time
Live Science via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoAn artist's rendering of a black hole. The "wobbling" remains of a star that suffered a grisly death...
'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan!...
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoSupermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation...
Are stars vanishing into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says 'yes'
Space via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoScientists have discovered strong evidence that some massive stars end their existence with a...
Death star black holes "swiveling around and pointing at new targets"—NASA
Newsweek· 1 day 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· 1 day 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 ...
Scientists clocked a black hole spinning at a quarter of light speed
Quartz· 1 day 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
Black hole singularities defy physics. New research could finally do away with them.
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 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· 4 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...
Supermassive black hole spin measured for the first time
Cosmos· 2 days agoFor the first time, astronomers have been able to determine how fast a black hole is spinning. The...