Black Holes

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Most powerful quasar storms ever are tearing across space like cosmic tsunamis
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What's the last thing you'd see as you fell into a black hole?
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The path of light around a black hole gets severely distorted by gravity. In this diagram, the Earth is off to the right, and light from material behind the black hole gets bent toward us, leaving a “hole” where the black hole itself is.
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Could there be a way to make a sci-fi-style wormhole out of two black holes?
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Supermassive black hole blasted the biggest explosion ever
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Does our galaxy's huge black hole have a little black hole buddy?
Phil Plait
Feb 26, 2020
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Artwork depicting two black holes orbiting each other. Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet)
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Charlotte's Daydream
Phil Plait
Feb 21, 2020
The title frame of “Charlotte’s Daydream”, a lovely animation about an astronomer visiting a black hole. Credit: Marlies van der Wel
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Star clusters can disrupt planetary systems, tossing planets into black holes
Phil Plait
Feb 11, 2020
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Artwork of a black hole in the final stages of devouring a star. In globular clusters, they may eat rogue planets as well. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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The top 5 astronomy stories for 2019
Phil Plait
Dec 23, 2019
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So, about that 'too massive' black hole… yeah, not so much.
Phil Plait
Dec 11, 2019
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Artist’s depiction of a blue star orbiting a black hole… except this depiction for the purported 70 solar mass black hole is incorrect. That gas orbits the whole system. Credit: Jingchuan Yu / Beijing Planetarium (modified by Phil Plait)
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Q: How did this black hole get so big? A: Maybe it's really two black holes.
Phil Plait
Dec 2, 2019
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Artist’s depiction of a blue star orbiting a black hole. Credit: Jingchuan Yu / Beijing Planetarium
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Two gamma-ray bursts emit highest energy photons ever seen from GRBs
Phil Plait
Nov 21, 2019
Artwork depicting a gamma-ray burst with a beam of material racing away. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Kornmesser
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Our local supermassive black hole shot a star right out of the galaxy
Phil Plait
Nov 13, 2019
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Artwork depicting the ejection of one star in a binary system by a supermassive black hole. Credit: James Josephides (Swinburne Astronomy Productions)
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The lowest mass black hole ever (not) seen may have been found
Phil Plait
Nov 4, 2019
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Fanciful artwork depicting a low-mass stellar black hole (lower left) and a red giant star orbiting each other. Credit: Ohio State / Jason Shults
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Black holes might not crush you after all—they could be even weirder than that
Elizabeth Rayne
Oct 12, 2019
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The day our galaxy exploded
Phil Plait
Oct 10, 2019
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Artwork showing the outburst from the center of the Milky Way and the Magellanic Stream of gas coming out of satellite galaxies. Credit: James Josephides/ASTRO 3D
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If you could survive a black hole, where would you end up?
Elizabeth Rayne
Sep 28, 2019
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NASA image of a black hole
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