Black Holes

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
More black hole weirdness: They bend light so much they self-illuminate
Phil Plait
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Merging black holes blast out light… but not for the reason you'd think
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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.
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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
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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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A black hole is slowly eating the corpse of a dead star
Phil Plait
Apr 29, 2020
Artwork depicting a star with material being pulled off by a nearby black hole. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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Two black holes merged into one, singing in tune the whole time
Phil Plait
Apr 21, 2020
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This black hole blew up billions of years ago. Now it looks like four black holes
Elizabeth Rayne
Apr 6, 2020
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It looks like a star 750 million light years away *was* torn apart by a mid-sized black hole
Phil Plait
Apr 1, 2020
Artwork depicting a back hole eating the remnants of a star that wandered too close and was torn apart. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Player
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Most powerful quasar storms ever are tearing across space like cosmic tsunamis
Elizabeth Rayne
Mar 26, 2020
NASA image of a quasar
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What's the last thing you'd see as you fell into a black hole?
Phil Plait
Mar 20, 2020
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?
Elizabeth Rayne
Mar 6, 2020
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Supermassive black hole blasted the biggest explosion ever
Elizabeth Rayne
Feb 29, 2020
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Does our galaxy's huge black hole have a little black hole buddy?
Phil Plait
Feb 26, 2020
Artwork depicting two black holes orbiting each other. Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet)
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