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The features include the launch of a plasma jet moving at nearly one-third the speed of light and unusual, rapid X-ray ...
A powerful new technique is poised to revolutionize how astronomers observe black holes, by producing sharp, multicolored ...
A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...
Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from ...
One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...
Now, the black hole has once again demonstrated strange features that teams of astronomers around the world have professed to never before seeing: Plasma jets moving at nearly one-third the speed ...
As physicist John Wheeler wittily explained this lack of distinguishing features: "black holes have no hair." "Black holes seem so exotic, but you can describe them completely with just two ...
It’s the largest black hole jet we’ve discovered to date. What makes this particular jet so exciting for astronomers is not only its size. It’s also estimated to be 1.2 billion years old.
Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar feature: the singularity at the center — a point, hidden behind the ...
The system lies about 8,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It features one of the oldest known black holes, a beast nine times as massive as the sun that is sucking gas from a ...
What Are Black Hole Supermazes? Supermazes come from M-theory, an umbrella idea that includes multiple versions of string theory, in which our universe contains 11 dimensions—not just the four ...