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Keir Starmer aims to end questions about his leadership in first major election campaign speech
The Independent via Yahoo News· 31 minutes agoThe Labour leader’s “presidential” speech comes as the Tories have accused him of threatening to...
'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan!...
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSupermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation...
A New Way to Measure the Rotation of Black Holes
Universe Today· 9 hours agoDr. Pasham found AT2020ocn, a bright flash captured by the Zwicky Transient Facility at Palomar Observatory. Part of the star’s remnants are flung from the black hole, but part falls into the accretion disk.
Right again, Einstein! Scientists find where matter 'waterfalls' into black holes
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoEinstein was right! Scientists found the first-ever evidence of "plunging regions" of spacetime...
Webb Space Telescope uncovers earliest known merger of black holes
The Columbian· 7 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
Groundbreaking Measurement Reveals a Black Hole Spinning at a Quarter the Speed of Light
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 4 days agoA team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin...
We’ve Finally Seen Matter Plunge into a Black Hole
Scientific American· 3 days agoBlack holes stretch the fabric of spacetime to its extreme—and the closer you get to one, the more warped things get. “You can be really very close to a ...
Black holes are mysterious, but deceptively simple
Arizona Daily Sun· 5 days agoResearch from the 1970s suggests that you can comprehensively describe a black hole using only three physical attributes – their mass, charge and spin.
First proof that 'plunging regions' exist around black holes in space
Phys.org· 1 day agoAn international team led by researchers at Oxford University Physics have proved Einstein was correct about a key prediction concerning black holes. Using X-ray data to test Einstein's theory ...
Black Holes are Firing Beams of Particles, Changing Targets Over Time
Universe Today· 1 day agoBlack holes seem to provide endless fascination to astronomers. Dubbing them “Death Star” black holes, researchers used data from the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
