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'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan!...
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoSupermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation...
How the Universe’s First Giant Black Holes Got So Big So Quickly
Scientific American· 23 hours agoAs astronomers read back into the first chapters of the universe’s history, they have uncovered a...
Detecting 'Hawking radiation' from black holes using today's telescopes
Phys.org· 20 hours agoWhen two massive black holes collide and merge, or a neutron star and black hole do so, they emit...
Are Those Eerie Oversized Black Holes In The Early Universe The Result Of Direct Collapse?
IFLScience· 17 hours agoLooking this far back into the universe has yielded a few surprises, including those eerily big...
Vanishing Without a Trace: Why Stars Mysteriously Disappear From the Night Sky
SciTechDaily· 6 hours agoAstrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen help explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars...
Supermassive Black Holes Can Fire Powerful Beams – And Drastically Change Their Aim
IFLScience· 18 hours agoOne of the most prominent features of supermassive black holes that are actively feeding is a jet of...
Merging Black Holes Could Give Astronomers a Way to Detect Hawking Radiation
Universe Today· 1 day agoNothing lasts forever, including black holes. This is because of Hawking Radiation, named after...
Groundbreaking Measurement Reveals a Black Hole Spinning at a Quarter the Speed of Light
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 7 days agoA team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin...
We’ve Finally Seen Matter Plunge into a Black Hole
Scientific American· 6 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 ...
Supermassive black hole spin measured for the first time
Cosmos· 6 days agoFor the first time, astronomers have been able to determine how fast a black hole is spinning. The...