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Via theguardian.com
Dormant Black Hole Found Outside the Milky Way for the First Time
The black hole binary system VFTS243 is nine times the mass of the sun and the first dormant black hole to be discovered outside the Milky Way. Its origins, however, are peculiar. …
Via bbc.com
Scientists Claim Hairy Black Holes Resolve Hawking’s Paradox
New research claims to have resolved one of the biggest scientific paradoxes, first identified by Stephen Hawking in the 1970s, pertaining to black holes. Einstein’s general theory of relativity posits that anything that …
Via inverse.com
Merger of Two Black Holes Predicted
Astronomers are watching two highly eccentric black holes in a “gravitational tango” that might result in them merging—an event that astronomers have predicted but have never witnessed before. The cosmic incident could …
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First-Ever Light Detected Behind a Black Hole
Most space enthusiasts are aware that nothing can escape the tremendous gravitational pull of a black hole but, for the first time ever, scientists have detected light coming from behind a black …
Via independent.co.uk
Cosmic Cloud Has “Heartbeat”
A decade’s worth of data from NASA’s gamma-ray space telescope has revealed a “heartbeat” at the center of a cosmic gas cloud which seems to be beating in sync with a neighboring …
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30 Years of Photos From the Hubble Telescope
Fresh off a celebration for the Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th birthday, National Geographic took time to peruse and publish select photos from the remarkable research tool’s past three decades. Living well beyond its …
Via wired.com
Explaining Black Holes in Five Ways
Research astronomer Varoujan Gorjian (whose team at NASA is called Structure of the Universe Group) explains Black Holes to five different individuals whose understanding exists at five different levels: a five-year old, …