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Black hole spin speed revealed in new study of churning space-time
Live Science via Yahoo News· 8 hours ago"Frame dragging is an effect present around all spinning black holes," team leader Dheeraj "DJ"...
'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan!...
SPACE.com· 1 day agoAstronomers have witnessed vast black holes blasting powerful beams of particles into space, and...
Are stars vanishing into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says 'yes'
SPACE.com· 5 hours agoScientists have discovered strong evidence that some massive stars end their existence with a...
Webb Space Telescope uncovers earliest known merger of black holes
The Columbian· 4 days agoCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes. These two gigantic black holes ...
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...
Tiny black holes hiding in the sun could trace out stunning patterns
New Scientist· 7 hours agoIf our solar system and even our sun contain tiny black holes formed just after the big bang, they...
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...
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...
Astronomers Just Calculated The Spin Speed of a Supermassive Black Hole
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThey also have a range of behaviors, from quiescent to brilliantly active, blazing across space-time with some of the brightest flares of light produced in the Universe. That ...
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 ...