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Supermassive black hole pair shares 'meal' for the first time
Astronomers have discovered two supermassive black holes in the galaxy 2MASX J21240027+340911 orbiting each other closer and closer, both sucking in interstellar matter.
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Top 8 largest objects in the universe
Astronomers have discovered some of the most massive celestial objects in the universe, from planets to superclusters of galaxies.
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A star's strange orbit around a black hole proves Einstein right again
Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity continues to prove its worth, 108 years after it was officially published.
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First discovery of triple black hole system
Physicists have discovered a triple black hole system for the first time, and their existence challenges long-held theories about how black holes form.
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Unprecedented thing appears next to black hole, confusing scientists
A black hole in the constellation Cygnus and its two ghostly companions have challenged long-standing cosmological understanding.
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Scientists announce new discovery about black holes
Scientists can now know what is going on inside a black hole and part of how this celestial body works.
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Is the Sun really common in the Milky Way?
99.8% of the mass in the Solar System is occupied by the Sun, as the only star, the Sun firmly holds a dominant position in the entire stellar system.
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Why can black holes bend space-time?
Black holes are one of the most fascinating objects in the universe, but human understanding of black holes still has many aspects that cannot be clearly answered.
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What would you see if you fell into a black hole?
A black hole is an extremely dense celestial body whose gravitational pull is so great that even light cannot escape from it, hence the name.
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Two black holes closest to Earth discovered, of a kind never seen before
Two black holes lurking in Earth's backyard, just 1,560 and 3,800 light-years away, represent a type astronomers have never seen before.
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Launched from a black hole, the terrifying 'blue dragon' makes everything explode
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a monstrous object 3,000 light years long, born from a monster black hole.
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Spacecraft catches strange signal: New record for 'space death'!
Confusing data from the Gaia spacecraft may reveal one of the most sought-after types of objects in the Milky Way.
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13.8 billion year old 'ghost' pierces the Solar System
Objects born in the first second after the Big Bang could have just whizzed past and shaken planets in the Solar System.
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NASA captures the 'immortal god of death' of the universe
Scientists detected unusual signals that resembled flashing lights,
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Find the 'highway' straight into the space-time tear
The hypothetical structure mentioned by Einstein in 1915 has been confirmed in a space-time tear 10,000 light years away from us.