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Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at us
The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...
Gravitational waves may prove black holes' quantum effect and resolve the dark matter problem
Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...
Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Lit Up in a Way We’ve Never Seen Before
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
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How we might finally find black holes from the cosmic dawn
After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.
A strange black hole is acting even stranger
A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.
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Small satellite constellation could reveal black holes like never before
Researchers in South Korea are developing a constellation of satellites that could reveal what goes on in the vicinity of ...
A CubeSat mission will detect X-rays from GRBs and black-hole mergers
The long-awaited detection of gravitational waves has opened up a whole new world of astronomy. One of the key efforts is now ...