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NASA spots 16 'Death Star' black holes blasting powerful beams at multiple targets
Live Science via Yahoo News· 21 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· 13 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· 17 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 ...
Groundbreaking Measurement Reveals a Black Hole Spinning at a Quarter the Speed of Light
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 4 days agoA team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin...
Another Win for Einstein – Theory First Proposed in 1915 Is Proved Correct
IJR· 17 hours agoMore than a century ago, Albert Einstein theorized that black holes in space would have a region...
Death star black holes "swiveling around and pointing at new targets"—NASA
Newsweek· 3 days agoAccording to a new paper in The Astrophysical Journal, these jets—fired out from each black hole in...
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...
We’ve Finally Seen Matter Plunge into a Black Hole
Scientific American· 3 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 ...
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
Right again, Einstein! Scientists find where matter 'waterfalls' into black holes
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoEinstein was right! Scientists found the first-ever evidence of "plunging regions" of spacetime...