Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most renowned theoretical physicists, provided profound insights on a range of subjects, …
black holes
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Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don’t …
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Space
Polarized X-Rays Reveal Shape, Orientation of Extremely Hot Matter Around Black Hole
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesResearchers’ recent observations of a stellar-mass black hole called Cygnus X-1 reveal new details about the configuration of …
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Using data from ESA’s Gaia astrometry mission, astronomers have identified the closest known black hole, less than 1,600 …
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Space
Researchers Discover New Monster Black Hole ‘Practically in Our Back Yard’
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesThe discovery of a so-called monster black hole that has about 12 times the Sun’s mass is detailed …
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For the first time, astronomers have encountered something exciting from archival data. The data from gravitational ripple observatories …
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A team of astronomers in Japan has discovered for the first time a faint radio emission covering a …
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Space
Making Sense of the Nonsensical: Black Holes and the Simulation Library
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesAfter mobilizing more than 300 scientists and engineers to establish a network of synchronized telescopes that form an …
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Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive …
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Primordial black holes created in the first instants after the Big Bang — tiny ones smaller than the …