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Andromeda’s Supermassive Black Hole Feeding Habits Revealed by NASA’s Spitzer
SciTechDaily· 15 hours agoNASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope images show streams of dust feeding the supermassive black hole in...
Black hole spin speed revealed in new study of churning space-time
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 days ago"Frame dragging is an effect present around all spinning black holes," team leader Dheeraj "DJ"...
'Death Star' Black Holes Can Rapidly Swivel Massive Beams Onto New Targets
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoAbout a third of the jets studied (30-38...million years or less. That suggests this is a relatively...
Black holes are firing beams of particles, changing targets over time
Phys.org· 13 hours agoDubbing them "Death Star" black holes, researchers used data from the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory to look at where these black ...
'Manhattanhenge' returns: Where and when to see the sun 'kiss the grid' in New York next week
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe Instagram-worthy alignment of the setting sun and the streets of Manhattan is about to begin...
Clemson astrophysicists discover evidence of elusive black hole
The Post and Courier· 18 hours agoClemson University astrophysicists believe they have discovered a rare black hole system, containing...
'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan!...
SPACE.com· 4 days agoAstronomers have witnessed vast black holes blasting powerful beams of particles into space, and...
Groundbreaking Measurement Reveals a Black Hole Spinning at a Quarter the Speed of Light
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin...
Right again, Einstein! Scientists find where matter 'waterfalls' into black holes
SPACE.com· 7 days agoThe observation of this plunging region around black holes was made by astrophysicists at Oxford...
Black holes are mysterious, but deceptively simple
Arizona Daily Sun· 6 days agoResearch from the 1970s suggests that you can comprehensively describe a black hole using only three physical attributes – their mass, charge and spin.