Black Holes

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Could spacecraft actually use black holes as portals through hyperspace?
Elizabeth Rayne

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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
Phil Plait
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
Phil Plait
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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Have we just seen ghosts of black holes from another universe?
Elizabeth Rayne
Aug 25, 2018
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NASA image of a black hole
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News: Monster black holes shoot out neutrinos like cosmic bullets
Phil Plait
Jul 12, 2018
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Artist drawing of a blazar, a galaxy with a supermassive black hole spewing out energy. Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab
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Astronomers watch the aftermath of a star ripped apart by a middleweight black hole
Phil Plait
Jun 27, 2018
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Artwork_blackhole_starArtist’s conception of a star getting eaten by a black hole, with material ripped from the falling down into the black hole and forming a hot disk. Credit: ESA, NASA and Felix Mirabel
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Astronomers watch the aftermath of a star ripped apart by a huge black hole
Phil Plait
Jun 19, 2018
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Artwork depicting a star torn apart by a black hole in Arp 299, with a beam of material blasting away. Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA, STScI
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The chained princess’s drogue
Phil Plait
Jun 15, 2018
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The four images (A-D) of the quadruply lensed quasar J014709+463037 can be seen in this deep image taken by the Pan-STARRS telescope. The lensing galaxy (G) is marked by an X. Credit: Berghea et al.
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Last year, two merging neutron stars rocked astronomy. Now it looks like they left behind a black hole.
Phil Plait
Jun 1, 2018
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Artwork showing the moment of the neutron star collision, with beams of energy shooting out and gravitational waves shaking ripples in the space-time continuum. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
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The dead star, the doomed star, and their little friend
Phil Plait
May 8, 2018
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Artwork depicting a black hole drawing material off its massive blue stellar companion. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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Bye, black holes: white holes are even weirder
Elizabeth Rayne
Apr 29, 2018
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NASA image of a black hole
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Will we ever find out what Stephen Hawking was really thinking about black holes?
Elizabeth Rayne
Mar 19, 2018
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A collision of art, science... and galaxies
Phil Plait
Mar 15, 2018
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The stunning nearly edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 1055. Credit: Robert Gendler / Roberto Colombari/ NAOJ / ESO
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How to make a nearly naked black hole
Phil Plait
Mar 12, 2018
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A small galaxy with a huge black hole in the middle survived an encounter with a much bigger galaxy, but only after being stripped of nearly all its material. David A. Hardy/UK ATC
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