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Milky Way's Black Hole: May Be Spinning Football-Shaped Spacetime Warp
The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...
For the first time, astronomers watch a black hole ‘wake up’ in real-time
Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.
Sleeping Black Hole Erupts in Real Time – Blasting Out Record-Breaking X-Rays
A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show! ESA’s XMM-Newton and other X-ray telescopes are capturing massive bursts of ...
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NASA spacecraft spots monster black hole bursting with X-rays 'releasing a hundred times more energy than we have seen elsewhere'
"This pushes our models to their limits and challenges our existing ideas about how these X-ray flashes are being generated." ...
The Infinite Weirdness of Black Holes, and What Happens When You Fall Into One
Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.
Astronomers enthralled as a hungry black hole wakes up and starts feeding
The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it ...
From boring to bursting: A giant black hole awakens
Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...
Massive black hole 'waking up' in Virgo constellation
A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at ...
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From boring to bursting: Giant black hole awakens
Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to ...