supermassive black holes
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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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One Day, Black Holes Will Be All That’s Left of This Star Cluster
Some 80,000 light-years away, a group of black holes is slowly becoming the only show in town, according to a team of astronomers that recently modelled a globular cluster called Palomar 5. The cluster, which has streams of stars issuing from two arms on either side of it, will eventually be solely constituted by black…
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You Cannot Conceive Of The Hugeness Of This Black Hole
Oh my, this recently discovered black hole… well, it’s big.
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10 Years Of Data Appears To Show Black Hole Eating A Star
An artist’s representation of a black hole eating a star and spewing a jet When a star meets the gravity of a black hole, chaos ensues.