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2 weeks ago
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NASA simulation shows what it would be like to fall into a black hole

A first-person plunge animation towards a black hole's 'event horizon' showcased by NASA. [ more ]
www.space.com
1 month ago
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Milky Way's 'Sleeping Giant' Black Hole Lurks Shockingly Close to Earth

The Milky Way has a new massive black hole, Gaia-BH3, 33 times more massive than the sun, located just 2,000 light years from Earth. [ more ]
Mail Online
3 months ago
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Black hole gobbles up one sun every single day, scientists say

Black hole consuming a star a day 12 billion light years away with a mass 17 billion times that of the sun.
Discovery of 'most hellish place in the universe' by a team at ANU led by Assoc. Prof. Christian Wolf. [ more ]
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1 month ago
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Astronomers discover Milky Way's biggest stellar black hole 33 times size of sun

BH3 is the most massive stellar black hole in the Milky Way, formed from an exploding star 2,000 light-years away. [ more ]
Inverse
1 month ago
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Inside a Revolutionary Experiment to Map Space-Time

The first-ever image of a black hole provided strong evidence of their existence and matched theoretical predictions.
Astronomers are collaborating to create the first-ever movie of a black hole by capturing snapshots over time. [ more ]
time.com
3 months ago
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Astronomers Find What May Be the Universe's Brightest Object With a Black Hole Devouring a Sun a Day

The brightest quasar in the universe discovered, 500 trillion times brighter than the sun, black hole 17 billion times more massive than the sun. [ more ]
www.space.com
2 months ago
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The Brightest Quasar Ever Seen Eats a 'Sun' Every Day

J0529-4351 is the brightest and most luminous quasar ever discovered, with a supermassive black hole consuming the equivalent of one sun's mass per day.
The newly discovered quasar is located so far from Earth that its light has taken 12 billion years to reach us, providing a glimpse of the universe at just under 2 billion years old. [ more ]
www.npr.org
3 months ago
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Scientists have found a black hole so large it eats the equivalent of one sun per day

Discovery of the fastest-growing black hole ever recorded
Black holes form bright objects called quasars. [ more ]
www.theguardian.com
3 months ago
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Astronomers discover universe's brightest object a quasar powered by a black hole that eats a sun a day

A quasar 500tn times brighter than the sun discovered by Australian scientists.
The quasar is powered by the fastest growing black hole ever found, consuming a sun's worth of mass daily. [ more ]
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Futurism
4 months ago
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James Webb Finds Most Ancient Black Hole Ever Discovered

Astronomers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, formed just 400 million years after the Big Bang.
The black hole is so large for its age that it challenges current theories on how these objects form. [ more ]
Mail Online
4 months ago
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Venture inside a 'monster' supermassive black hole

A new image of the M87 black hole confirms the presence of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy.
The image shows the shift in the bright 'shadow' of the black hole over time, confirming predictions based on Einstein's theories of relativity. [ more ]
Mail Online
6 months ago
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Monster gamma-ray burst is detected 310 miles above Earth

GRB 221009A, the brightest gamma ray burst ever recorded, caused disturbances in Earth's ionosphere.
Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) occur when the core of a massive star collapses and forms a black hole. [ more ]
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