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Most distant detection of a black hole swallowing a star

A massive black hole millions or billions of times heavier than the Sun, lurks at the heart of nearly every galaxy. Some are known...

Mysteriously bright flash is a black hole jet pointing straight toward Earth, astronomers say

Astronomers have discovered the source of an extremely bright X-ray, optical, and radio signal seen halfway across the Universe. The signal is known as AT...

NASA’s IXPE solve black hole jet mystery

Blazars, which are among the brightest and most energetic celestial objects, are made up of a supermassive black hole. It feeds off material swirling...

Death of a star reveals midsize black hole lurking in a dwarf galaxy

Massive black holes (BHs) are common at the centres of massive galaxies. Their population in dwarf galaxies, however, remains a mystery. Detecting light emitted...

Astronomers discover closest black hole to Earth

Astronomers announced on Friday that they had discovered the closest known black hole, almost but not quite in time for Halloween. It's a big...

Here’s what a black hole sounds like, according to NASA. Yes, it’s ‘frightening’

NASA shared an audio clip on social media this week that allows you to "hear" a black hole. The sound is, predictably, terrifying. NASA Exoplanets, a...

Star with the shortest orbital period around black hole discovered

The fastest known star, discovered by researchers at the University of Cologne and Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic), travels around a black hole...

A black hole spins on its side of death spiral

University of Turku, Finland scientists have found that the axis of rotation of a black hole in a binary system is tilted more than...

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