Black Holes

Artwork depicting a black hole eating a star, the ferocious tides tearing the star apart. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
A black hole in a distant galaxy has been eating a star… for more than a *decade*!
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Astronomers watch an active black hole dragging spacetime around it
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When the spin axis of a black hole is tipped relative to the plane of the material coming in, it drags the material out of that plane as the fabric of spacetime warps around the black hole. Credit: ICRAR
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First we took a picture of a black hole... soon we'll watch it devour stuff
Elizabeth Rayne
Apr 22, 2019
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Why the M87 black hole looks different from what sci-fi thought it would
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Apr 13, 2019
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Who Won the Week Episode 175: Hellboy, Sabrina Season 2, Lion King trailer... and black holes!
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Apr 12, 2019
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New Smithsonian documentary goes behind the scenes of that historic Black Hole image
Josh Weiss
Apr 11, 2019
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Peering down the cliff of infinity: The first image of the event horizon of a black hole
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Apr 10, 2019
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The very first image of the event horizon of a supermassive black hole. This shows the silhouette of a black hole with a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun, located at the core of the galaxy M87 55 million light years away from Earth. Credit: NSF
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See the Milky Way from its center with NASA’s 4K 360-degree VR simulation
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Mar 27, 2019
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Stephen Hawking will live forever on this commemorative black hole coin
Elizabeth Rayne
Mar 16, 2019
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NASA image of a black hole
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There might be a way to find out what a black hole ate
Elizabeth Rayne
Mar 8, 2019
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NASA screengrab of black hole
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A galaxy is blowing enormous megacharged superbubbles of gas and cosmic rays
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Mar 4, 2019
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The galaxy NGC 3079 shows stars seen by Hubble (orange and blue) as well as X-rays (purple) by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/University of Michigan/J-T Li et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI
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Could spacecraft actually use black holes as portals through hyperspace?
Elizabeth Rayne
Jan 10, 2019
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*FOUR* new black hole mergers have been found blasting out gravitational waves!
Phil Plait
Dec 3, 2018
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Artwork showing a newly-formed black hole with material swirling around it, and jets of energy and matter blasting away from its poles. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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Astronomers see material orbiting a black hole *right* at the edge of forever
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Nov 8, 2018
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A computer simulation shows the light emitted from dust swirling at 30% the speed of light around a black hole. Incredibly strong gravity affects the path the light takes, creating the warped structure. Credit: ESO/Gravity Consortium/L. Calçada
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WHAM! BULLSEYE! Galactic collision creates a ring of black holes and neutron stars
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Sep 10, 2018
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The ring galaxy AM 0644-071, created when a small compact galaxy plowed through the middle of a spiral galaxy at least tens of millions of years ago. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
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A black hole may swallow the world — and some folks are all for it
Benjamin Bullard
Aug 30, 2018
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