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Astronomers Watched a Black Hole Unexpectedly Flip Its Magnetic Field, Challenging Theoretical Models
A series of observations between 2017 and 2021 suggest the supermassive structure’s magnetized plasma is more dynamic than ...
Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...
The discovery that black hole growth may not be limited to galactic centers could shed light on the role supermassive black ...
At the heart of a quasar galaxy called RACS J0320-35, just 920 million years after the Big Bang, the black hole appears to be ...
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The First Black Hole We Ever Saw Is Doing Something Never Seen Before
Images taken of the Universe's most photogenic black hole over time reveal strange and exciting changes in its magnetic field. Using observations obtained using the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017, ...
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Giant Stars With Black Holes Inside Them May Have Been Detected For The First Time
Some of the mysterious pinpricks of light at the dawn of the Universe could be a type of object we've never seen before.
Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...
Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...
New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or Earth-based ...
Wormhole researchers suggest that LIGO and Virgo instead picked up the signals of a black hole collision in a different ...
Astronomers confirmed an off-center black hole in a dwarf galaxy. It offers clues to how supermassive black holes may form.
The merger of two black holes is a momentous event, revealing the wildest and most extreme configurations of space, time and gravity known to science.
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