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NASA spots 16 'Death Star' black holes blasting powerful beams at multiple targets
Live Science via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoResearchers using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope have found that a group of "Death Star black holes...
First proof that 'plunging regions' exist around black holes in space
Phys.org· 5 hours 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 ...
Black Holes are Firing Beams of Particles, Changing Targets Over Time
Universe Today· 9 hours agoBlack holes seem to provide endless fascination to astronomers. Dubbing them “Death Star” black holes, researchers used data from the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
Black hole spin speed revealed in new study of churning space-time
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAn artist's rendering of a black hole. The "wobbling" remains of a star that suffered a grisly death...
Supermassive Black Hole’s Spin Measured For The First Time With Destroyed Star
IFLScience· 3 days agoTidal disruption events (TDEs) are bright releases of energy caused by a supermassive black hole having a snack. Part of the snack is thrown out, but the ...
Are stars vanishing into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says 'yes'
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoVillarroel, have found dozens of stars on those old plates that simply aren't seen anymore; it's...
Webb Space Telescope uncovers earliest known merger of black holes
The Columbian· 6 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 holes are mysterious, but deceptively simple
Arizona Daily Sun· 4 days agoResearch from the 1970s suggests that you can comprehensively describe a black hole using only three physical attributes – their mass, charge and spin.
Astronomers Just Calculated The Spin Speed of a Supermassive Black Hole
MSN News· 3 days agoA feast devoured by a supermassive black hole a billion light-years from Earth has revealed how fast that black hole
JWST Spots Most Distant Black Hole Merger Yet
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 5 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...