black hole
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Behold! The Massive Black Hole You Can See From Your Backyard
Scientists have discovered a black hole that is so massive and bright that you can observe it from your backyard.
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NASA Visualisation Shows Black Holes Dancing with Stars
A new video from NASA shows what it looks like when a star is caught in the powerful gravity of a black hole. In these binary systems, the doomed stars spin around the black holes, which steadily suck up gas from them. The visualisation illustrates the variety of these parasitic partnerships in our galactic backyard,…
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Strange Object Hidden in Dust May Be What Forms Before a Supermassive Black Hole
A team of researchers poring over archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope found an ancient object they believe may explain how quasars — supermassive black holes surrounded by jet-spewing discs of matter — emerge from dusty “starburst” galaxies.
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Astrophysicists May Have Found a Rare Species of Black Hole in the Andromeda Galaxy
A team of astrophysicists believe that a glob of stars in our next-door galaxy is hiding an intermediate-mass black hole, a type predicted to exist but that has never been observed for certain.