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NASA spots 16 'Death Star' black holes blasting powerful beams at multiple targets
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 days agoResearchers using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope have found that a group of "Death Star black holes...
Death star black holes "swiveling around and pointing at new targets"—NASA
Newsweek· 4 days agoAccording to a new paper in The Astrophysical Journal, these jets—fired out from each black hole in...
Spotted: ‘Death Star’ Black Holes in Action - NASA
NASA· 5 days agoA team of astronomers have studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams into space, to track where these beams, or jets, are
First proof that 'plunging regions' exist around black holes in space
Phys.org· 2 days 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 ...
Right again, Einstein! Scientists find where matter 'waterfalls' into black holes
SPACE.com· 6 days agoThe observation of this plunging region around black holes was made by astrophysicists at Oxford...
Black hole spin speed revealed in new study of churning space-time
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAn illustration showing a rotation supermassive black hole surrounded by the debris of a dead star...
After Swirling Around a Black Hole, Matter Just Falls Straight In
Universe Today· 6 days agoThe physics surrounding black holes is just plain weird. One of the paper’s authors, Dr. Andrew...
Study proves black holes have a ‘plunging region,’ just as Einstein predicted
AccuWeather· 7 days agoNASA’s space-based NuSTAR telescope, seen here in an artist’s concept, was used for the first time...
Groundbreaking Measurement Reveals a Black Hole Spinning at a Quarter the Speed of Light
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 5 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· 2 days agoThis week, science reporter Isaac Schultz described a groundbreaking effort to measure the spin of a...