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Star Skips Supernova Stage, Collapses Directly Into a Black Hole
ExtremeTech· 5 hours agoThis stellar event is so luminous that it can light up its galactic neighborhood for several days at a time, offering astronomers a unique opportunity to study the star life ...
We’ve Finally Seen Matter Plunge into a Black Hole
Scientific American· 5 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...
Groundbreaking Measurement Reveals a Black Hole Spinning at a Quarter the Speed of Light
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin...
Astronomers Just Calculated The Spin Speed of a Supermassive Black Hole
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 6 days ago"By studying several systems in the coming years with this method," Pasham says, "astronomers can estimate the overall distribution of black hole ...
Black holes are mysterious, but deceptively simple
Arizona Daily Sun· 7 days agoResearch from the 1970s suggests that you can comprehensively describe a black hole using only three physical attributes – their mass ...
Astronomers Stumbled Upon A Rare Chance To Capture Just How Fast A Supermassive Black Hole Spins
Inverse· 6 days agoThere are behemoths that lurk at the center of almost all large galaxies in the known universe,...
Hundreds of Huge Stars Disappeared From The Sky. We May Finally Know Why.
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 4 days agoTheir evidence? A binary...VFTS 243 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, consisting of a black hole and a...
Astrophysicists may have cracked mystery of vanishing stars
Newsweek· 6 days agoRather than dying dramatically in a massive supernova explosion, some large stars may die quietly...
Scientists locate origin of the sun’s magnetic field
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThis week, marvel at the sun’s complexity, discover a new side to Stonehenge, meet a clever corvid, explore a newly observed region of a black hole, and...
Asus ROG Strix XG27ACS Gaming Monitor Review - IGN
IGN Videogames· 2 hours agoGamers looking to buy a 27-inch 1440p gaming monitor for less than $300 are spoiled for choice this year with more than half a dozen viable options from...