Black Holes

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Could the alleged black hole in the center of our galaxy be a ginormous glob of dark matter?
Elizabeth Rayne
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Wait: Do black holes *really* swarm in the core of globular cluster NGC 6397?
Phil Plait
May 20, 2021
Artwork based on a real Hubble observation of NGC 6397 showing black holes swarming in its core. Credit: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann / modified slightly by Phil Plait
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Just how many stars *is* Albireo, and is one of them a black hole?
Phil Plait
May 19, 2021
The double star (and not binary) Albireo, or Beta Cygni, the color difference obvious. Credit: Tom Wildoner
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Something woke the beast...the black hole, that is
Elizabeth Rayne
May 10, 2021
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A black hole tore a star apart and played with the debris
Phil Plait
May 4, 2021
Art depicting a star torn apart by a black hole. The destruction leaves a long looping trail of stellar material around the black hole, and could prompt beams of energy and matter blasting away from the black hole. Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab
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What is now the closest known black hole to Earth is a real unicorn
Elizabeth Rayne
Apr 24, 2021
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Millions of lonely black holes are in our galaxy. Here’s how we’ll find some of them.
Phil Plait
Apr 23, 2021
Simulation of a massive black hole distorting light from the stars behind it. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Coe, J. Anderson, and R. van der Marel (STScI)
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Watch the doubly warped view of two monster black holes orbiting each other
Phil Plait
Apr 20, 2021
The distorted view of two black holes orbiting each other, the light warped by the intense gravity of both. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. Powell
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The birth of a little black hole may have revealed a much bigger black hole
Phil Plait
Mar 30, 2021
Artwork depicting the moment of collision between two neutron stars. The resulting explosion is… quite large. Credit: Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc.
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European Southern Observatory's new video blasts from Earth to a black hole
Jeff Spry
Mar 28, 2021
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Event Horizon Telescope sees the magnetic engine behind a supermassive black hole's immense power
Phil Plait
Mar 24, 2021
The actual image of material around the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy M87, showing the direction of light polarization coming from that matter. This is due to magnetic fields in the material, which powers much of the emission.
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What tossed a supermassive black hole around in the center of a distant galaxy?
Phil Plait
Mar 16, 2021
Black hole with accretion disk and jets
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Black hole conjured up in a lab does the same weird things Stephen Hawking thought it would do
Elizabeth Rayne
Mar 12, 2021
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So much darkness…are supermassive black holes made of dark matter?
Elizabeth Rayne
Mar 3, 2021
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Monstrous, superfast black hole can tell us how dead stars morph into such beasts
Elizabeth Rayne
Feb 25, 2021
Cygnus X-1 binary star system
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Hold your breath and enter this hypnotic map of 25,000 supermassive black holes
Jeff Spry
Feb 20, 2021
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