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Can Black Holes Die?
Black holes are not necessarily eternal in the simplest quantum description. Stephen Hawking's work showed that quantum effects near an event horizon allow black holes t…
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What Is a Supermassive Black Hole?
Supermassive black holes contain millions to billions of times the Sun's mass and are found at the centers of many large galaxies. Their enormous mass distinguishes them…
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What Is a Black Hole and How Do Black Holes Form?
A black hole is a region where matter has been compressed so strongly that, inside a boundary called the event horizon, escape would require moving faster than light. Bl…
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Neutron stars shake understanding of black holes
A newly observed neutron star merger has cast doubt on the previously known mechanism of black hole formation.
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Why do we assume black holes are spherical?
The area of gravitational influence around planets, stars, and black holes is spherical because it pulls equally in all directions.
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'Monster' scarier than black holes, what exactly is a quasar?
To date, there are still many unknown and uncertain aspects about the properties and behavior of quasars.
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Could our entire universe be inside a black hole?
What if we - and our entire universe - were inside a black hole?
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What if humans could use Black Holes to travel through time?
Currently, humans have not been able to build any spacecraft capable of taking us close to a Black Hole. If we ignore this detail, time travel is completely possible usi…
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Strange objects discovered at the center of the Milky Way
Astronomers have found six objects orbiting the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way, with appearances and characteristics unlike anythi…
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The nearly 50-year-old black hole paradox has been solved.
Hawking's paradox states that in the process of disappearing, black holes destroy all information about their origin, contrary to the rules of quantum physics.
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For the first time, researchers have discovered two supermassive black holes closer than ever before.
Black holes are a very scary astronomical object and cannot be observed directly, but they can be detected using other physical solutions.
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Discovering the first merging galactic cores at the dawn of the universe
Astronomers have discovered two active black holes merging at the furthest distance ever seen, about 900 million years after the Big Bang.
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Observing a black hole, the telescope was suddenly 'bombed' by a strange phenomenon
A strange phenomenon described by Harvard scientists as a cosmic burp has been recorded by the Very Large Radio Telescope system located in New Mexico, USA.
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The truth about the terrible object that can 'blow away' the Earth
A ghostly object from the beginning of the universe has been hurtling through our vicinity at least once every decade.
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Scientists discover twisted crystals that use 'pseudo-gravity' to bend light like black holes
Photonic crystals are optical nanostructures that affect the propagation of photons within them in a similar way to the way semiconductor crystals affect the motion of e…