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Watch your step! Astrophysicist details the agony of falling into a swirling black hole
Jeff Spry
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How do you feed the insatiable appetite of a nuclear black hole?
Elizabeth Rayne
spiral galaxy M51
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The Universe is shaking: 39 new gravitational wave events added to the list
Phil Plait
Artwork depicting two black holes orbiting each other. Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet)
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The ring of material around M87’s supermassive black hole is changing with time
Phil Plait
Sep 23, 2020
The very first image of the "shadow" of a supermassive black hole. This shows the region around a black hole with a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun, located 55 million light years away from Earth in the core of the galaxy M87. Credit: NSF
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See-through stars could be glowing eerily all over space
Elizabeth Rayne
Sep 15, 2020
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The biggest black hole merger ever detected rocked the Universe and left behind a mystery
Phil Plait
Sep 2, 2020
Artwork depicting a binary black hole system, the precursor to a merger. Credit: Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav).
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The 'heartbeat' of a black hole 'heard' in space for the first time ever
Elizabeth Rayne
Aug 21, 2020
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Dark Nights Metal is (almost) real because "strange metals" are kind of like multiverses in themselves
Elizabeth Rayne
Jul 29, 2020
Batman in Dark Nights: Metal
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This black hole glitched like a cosmic computer…then restarted itself out of nowhere
Elizabeth Rayne
Jul 22, 2020
NASA image of a tidal disruption event
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More black hole weirdness: They bend light so much they self-illuminate
Phil Plait
Jul 9, 2020
Artwork depicting a black hole drawing matter off a star, which then swirls around the black hole in an accretion disk. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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Merging black holes blast out light… but not for the reason you'd think
Phil Plait
Jun 29, 2020
A binary pair of black holes about to merge together, near the huge disk of material swirling around a supermassive black hole in a distant active galaxy. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)
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A big black hole just ate a much smaller black hole. Or a neutron star. Maybe.
Phil Plait
Jun 24, 2020
Artwork depicting the merger of a neutron star (right) with a black hole (left). Credit: Carl Knox (OzGrav)
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Do black holes have indigestion? That could explain mysterious bubbles belched into space
Elizabeth Rayne
May 30, 2020
NASA image of Fermi Bubbles
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Why are black holes surrounded by a haze of eerie clouds, and do they eat them?
Elizabeth Rayne
May 22, 2020
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A huge black hole eats a huger black hole's dinner then explodes with the light of a trillion suns
Phil Plait
May 11, 2020
Artwork (not to scale) depicting the binary black hole in the heart of the blazar OJ 287. The less massive black hole plunges through the accretion disk around the more massive black hole, creating a huge bubble of superheated gas. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltec
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Astronomers find the closest known black hole to Earth!
Phil Plait
May 6, 2020
Artwork showing a quiet black hole against a starry background. Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Coe, G. Bacon (STScI)
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