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NASA spots 16 'Death Star' black holes blasting powerful beams at multiple targets
Live Science via Yahoo News· 13 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· 6 hours agoUsing X-ray data to test Einstein's theory of gravity, their study gives the first observational proof that a "plunging-region" exists around black holes: an area where matter ...
Black Holes are Firing Beams of Particles, Changing Targets Over Time
Universe Today· 10 hours agoBlack holes seem to provide endless fascination to astronomers. Dubbing them “Death Star” black holes, researchers used data from the Very Long Baseline ...
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...
Keep Carpenter Bees Away From Wooden Structures
Real Simple· 3 days agoBees are prized pollinators in the garden, but carpenter bees can become a springtime nuisance as they drill holes in wooden decks, windows, and eaves to...
Are stars vanishing into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says 'yes'
SPACE.com· 1 day 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· 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
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
Death star black holes "swiveling around and pointing at new targets"—NASA
Newsweek· 2 days 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· 2 days agoFor the first time, astronomers have been able to determine how fast a black hole is spinning. The...