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First proof that 'plunging regions' exist around black holes in space
Phys.org· 4 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 ...
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...
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 ...
Black hole spin speed revealed in new study of churning space-time
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 days ago"Frame dragging is an effect present around all spinning black holes," team leader Dheeraj "DJ"...
Another Win for Einstein – Theory First Proposed in 1915 Is Proved Correct
IJR· 8 hours agoMore than a century ago, Albert Einstein theorized that black holes in space would have a region...
Black Holes are Firing Beams of Particles, Changing Targets Over Time
Universe Today· 8 hours agoBlack holes seem to provide endless fascination to astronomers. Dubbing them “Death Star” black holes, researchers used data from the Very Long Baseline ...
Groundbreaking Measurement Reveals a Black Hole Spinning at a Quarter the Speed of Light
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin...
Spin of Supermassive Black Hole Measured at a Quarter the Speed of Light
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoThis week, science reporter Isaac Schultz described a groundbreaking effort to measure the spin of a...
Are stars vanishing into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says 'yes'
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoA spotted blue star shines bright, emanating its light across space as a small black sphere in its...
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.