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So much darkness…are supermassive black holes made of dark matter?
Elizabeth Rayne
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Monstrous, superfast black hole can tell us how dead stars morph into such beasts
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Hold your breath and enter this hypnotic map of 25,000 supermassive black holes
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Cygnus X-1, the first black hole ever detected, is more massive than we thought
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Artwork of the Cygnus X-1 system. Off to the left is a massive O-star over 40 times the mass of the Sun. Orbiting around it is a black hole with a mass of 21 times the Sun’s, feeding off of material from the star and blasting out X-rays. Credit: Internati
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Black holes swarm in the core of a globular cluster
Phil Plait
Artwork based on a real Hubble observation of NGC 6397 showing black holes swarming in its core. Credit: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann
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Turns out, you *can* get something out of a black hole... but it’s not easy
Phil Plait
Jan 21, 2021
Artwork of a black hole as it tears a star apart, creating a whirling accretion disk of material around it, and blasts out huge beams of matter wound up by its magnetic field. Credit: Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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Is dark matter made of teeny tiny black holes from another universe? Welllll…
Phil Plait
Dec 30, 2020
Fanciful artwork of baby universes spawning and growing in the first moments of our own Universe’s existence. Credit：Kavli IPMU
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The most distant astronomical object ever seen… in 1962
Phil Plait
Dec 24, 2020
A deep Hubble image of the quasar 3C 273 shows it as a blazing point source, almost like any other star. The linear feature to the upper left is a jet of material accelerated by the quasar’s black hole central engine. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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This galaxy is spawning stars too fast for its monster black hole to eat them
Elizabeth Rayne
Dec 18, 2020
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Watch your step! Astrophysicist details the agony of falling into a swirling black hole
Jeff Spry
Nov 14, 2020
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How do you feed the insatiable appetite of a nuclear black hole?
Elizabeth Rayne
Nov 10, 2020
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The Universe is shaking: 39 new gravitational wave events added to the list
Phil Plait
Oct 30, 2020
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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