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12 billion years of black hole history, revealed through X-rays and simulations
By Keith Cooper published
New findings show the black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy had a late growth spurt.
NASA telescope spots 'cosmic fireworks' and faint echos from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole
By Robert Lea published
NASA's NuSTAR telescope found evidence of cosmic fireworks and X-ray echoes coming from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.
Hubble Telescope maps high-speed 'burps' from nearby feeding supermassive black hole for 1st time
By Robert Lea published
Hubble has mapped the outflow "burps" of a nearby feeding supermassive black hole-powered quasar for the first time, measuring speeds of 6.5 million mph, around 8,500 times the speed of sound.
'Supercharged rhino' black holes may have formed and died a second after the Big Bang
By Robert Lea published
Tiny 'supercharged' black holes born just after the Big Bang may have been brief companions to primordial black holes, dying before the universe was a second old.
Could these black hole 'morsels' finally prove Stephen Hawking's famous theory?
By Robert Lea published
Stephen Hawking suggested black holes "leak " and evaporate away — scientists could use "morsels" launched from catastrophic black hole collisions to prove it.
Elusive medium-size black holes may form in dense 'birthing nests'
By Robert Lea published
A new simulation has shown elusive intermediate-mass black holes may form in dense globular clusters of millions of tightly packed stars, thanks to a chaotic collision chain.
If the Big Bang created miniature black holes, where are they?
By Robert Lea published
Primordial black holes born from density fluctuations dating back to the Big Bang have been frustratingly elusive, but a new quantum clue has been discovered.
Black hole singularities defy physics. New research could finally do away with them.
By Andrey Feldman published
Black hole singularities defy the laws of physics. New research presents a bold solution to this puzzle: Black holes may actually be a theoretical type of star called a 'gravastar,' filled with universe-expanding dark energy.
'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan! (video)
By Robert Lea published
Supermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation in their galaxies are shifting targets like real-life Death Stars.
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