Surprise! Students get an unexpected glimpse of a black hole 30,000 light-years away0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 11, 2020
They used a NASA asteroid probe to do it.
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Is life possible around black holes?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 10, 2020
There’s a lot of energy there for organisms to tap.
A black hole eruption marks the most powerful explosion ever spotted0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 3, 2020
The outburst was five times as energetic as the last record holder
Black holes shouldn’t echo, but this one might. Score 1 for Stephen Hawking?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 28, 2020
This isn’t how black holes are supposed to behave.
Astronomers just got a deep peek at a black hole0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 22, 2020
Using a technique akin to echolocation, scientists were able to map the region around a distant black hole’s event horizon in unprecedented detail.
2019 brought us the first image of a black hole. A movie may be next0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 17, 2019
The Event Horizon Telescope team is gearing up for more discoveries
A surprisingly big black hole might have swallowed a star from the inside out, and scientists are baffled0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 29, 2019
About 15,000 light years away, in a distant spiral arm of the Milky Way, there is a black hole about 70 times as heavy as the Sun.
A newfound black hole in the Milky Way is weirdly heavy0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 28, 2019
The object is locked in orbit with a star about 13,800 light-years away from Earth
Planets around a black hole? Calculations show possibility of bizarre worlds0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 28, 2019
Theoreticians in two fields defied the received wisdom that planets only orbit stars like the sun. They proposed the possibility of thousands of planets around a supermassive black hole.
A new type of black hole has been discovered and it may be the smallest ever, astronomers say0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 7, 2019
Astronomers studying black holes in our galaxy, the Milky Way, have discovered what they believe to be a new type of black hole. This previously unknown class of black holes could be smaller than others that were previously dubbed the smallest black holes.
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