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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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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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Discovered 16 ancient super black holes bombarding the universe
A team of astronomers has investigated where powerful beams from these 10 billion-year-old black holes have been and are heading.
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Capturing gravitational waves from unknown objects
Intense space-time ripples from the collision between a neutron star and a mysterious object have puzzled scientists.
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The mystery of the origin of the universe: Can each black hole give birth to a baby universe and do we live in a black hole?
Is our universe a black hole? This is a difficult question to answer accurately, however many astronomical phenomena show that this statement is not impossible.
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First discovery of a 'hiccup' black hole: Double ghost!
A monster black hole has puzzled scientists because it appears every eight and a half days
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Scientists plan to film super black holes
After the first image of the Milky Way's black hole, the Event Horizon telescope is ready to take the next step to image the chaotic flow of gas around the black hole.
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Scientists discovered a merger between a black hole and a mysterious object
Astrophysicists have discovered the strangest radio signal ever, coming from a merger between a black hole and an unknown object.
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Quasars containing black holes are 1.5 billion times more massive than the Sun.
Astronomers found the largest quasar ever in the early universe, more than 13 billion light-years from Earth.
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Earth catches strange radio signal flashing from the 'monster' black hole
The Japanese team of scientists discovered a peculiar radio signal that they thought came from the center of the galaxy containing the Milky Way earth.
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Unexpectedly discovered a black hole near the Earth that so far we did not know
The newly discovered black hole lies in the star system HR 6819, 1,011 light-years from Earth and four times the mass of the Sun.
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Discovered 'tsunami super waves' coming down from ... the universe
One of the most destructive phenomena in the universe has just been recorded by NASA's Hubble Telescope: the ghostly quasar super tsunami rips apart galaxies.
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A new discovery about the activity of a supermassive black hole in the early universe
Thanks to the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, astronomers have observed the activity of a black hole in the center of the galaxy 11 billion light-years away.
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6 mysterious objects surround the black hole
Astronomers discovered six objects orbiting the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * in the center of the Milky Way, most likely a merged star cloud.
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Discover the mysterious 'food source', feeding on supermassive black holes for millions of years
Scientists have revealed what they believe to have 'fed' supermassive black holes in the early universe.