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First proof that 'plunging regions' exist around black holes in space
Phys.org· 9 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· 16 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· 12 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· 13 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...
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.
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...
Spin of Supermassive Black Hole Measured at a Quarter the Speed of Light
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoThis week, science reporter Isaac Schultz described a groundbreaking effort to measure the spin of a...