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Wrap your mind around this newly-discovered ultramassive black hole
Jeff Spry
Aug 13, 2019
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The supermassive black hole in our galaxy recently erupted… and we don't know why
Phil Plait
Aug 13, 2019
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artwork of a black hole accretion disk
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Measuring a monster: The two *billion* solar mass black hole in NGC 3258
Phil Plait
Aug 8, 2019
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Artwork depicting the inner ring of gas and dust around the accretion disk, with the supermassive black hole directly in the center powering everything. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
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Making a supernova the hard way: Tossing a white dwarf into a black hole
Phil Plait
May 30, 2019
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Artist’s impression of a white dwarf having matter siphoned off by a black hole. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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A black hole in a distant galaxy has been eating a star… for more than a *decade*!
Phil Plait
May 15, 2019
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Artwork depicting a black hole eating a star, the ferocious tides tearing the star apart. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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Astronomers watch an active black hole dragging spacetime around it
Phil Plait
Apr 30, 2019
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When the spin axis of a black hole is tipped relative to the plane of the material coming in, it drags the material out of that plane as the fabric of spacetime warps around the black hole. Credit: ICRAR
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First we took a picture of a black hole... soon we'll watch it devour stuff
Elizabeth Rayne
Apr 22, 2019
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M87 black hole
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Why the M87 black hole looks different from what sci-fi thought it would
Elizabeth Rayne
Apr 13, 2019
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Who Won the Week Episode 175: Hellboy, Sabrina Season 2, Lion King trailer... and black holes!
Dany Roth Karama Horne Adam Swiderski
Apr 12, 2019
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Who Won the Week Episode 175
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New Smithsonian documentary goes behind the scenes of that historic Black Hole image
Josh Weiss
Apr 11, 2019
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Peering down the cliff of infinity: The first image of the event horizon of a black hole
Phil Plait
Apr 10, 2019
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The very first image of the event horizon of a supermassive black hole. This shows the silhouette of a black hole with a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun, located at the core of the galaxy M87 55 million light years away from Earth. Credit: NSF
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See the Milky Way from its center with NASA’s 4K 360-degree VR simulation
Elizabeth Rayne
Mar 27, 2019
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NASA Milky Way VR experience
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Stephen Hawking will live forever on this commemorative black hole coin
Elizabeth Rayne
Mar 16, 2019
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NASA image of a black hole
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There might be a way to find out what a black hole ate
Elizabeth Rayne
Mar 8, 2019
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NASA screengrab of black hole
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A galaxy is blowing enormous megacharged superbubbles of gas and cosmic rays
Phil Plait
Mar 4, 2019
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The galaxy NGC 3079 shows stars seen by Hubble (orange and blue) as well as X-rays (purple) by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/University of Michigan/J-T Li et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI
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Could spacecraft actually use black holes as portals through hyperspace?
Elizabeth Rayne
Jan 10, 2019
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Gargantua scene from Interstellar
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