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The scientists who photographed a supermassive black hole for the first time just won a $3 million prize. Here's their groundbreaking image.
"As a cloud of gas gets closer to the black hole, they speed up and heat up," Josephine Peters, an …
Aria Bendix
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A NASA image shows the center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail. Expect far more revealing photos from a soon-to-launch telescope.
JWST will study every phase of the universe's history in order to learn about how the first stars a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Humans are about to see the first-ever photo of a 'supermassive' black hole. Here what we hope to discover
But according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, a black hole is so massive and spins so q…
Aria Bendix
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We just got the first-ever photograph of a black hole 3 million times the size of earth. Some people think it looks like a 'smudge on the lens.'
Researchers from 40 nations spent around 13 years capturing the image of the black hole, which is 6…
Sinéad Baker,Sinéad Baker,Sin…
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A mesmerizing NASA animation shows how a nearby black hole would warp spacetime like a fun-house mirror
The visualization first shows what a black hole would look like from the side (the way it appears i…
Aria Bendix
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Our very own black hole in the Milky Way doesn’t quite eat up ‘everything’
About 26,000 light years away from the earth and four million times the size of the sun, researc…
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Meet the black hole at the center of our galaxy: Scientists just took its picture for the first time
Researchers unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of our gal…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Paola R…
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The movie 'Interstellar' came out exactly 5 years ago. Since then, new discoveries have changed our understanding of black holes.
In the movie "Interstellar," a fictional black hole called Gargantua takes center stage. The film c…
Aylin Woodward
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Andy Rubin's first Essential smartphone has a glaring flaw that might be a dealbreaker
I truly believe that smartphones are the most valuable devices we own, so it makes sense to invest …
Dave Smith,Dave Smith
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A 29-year-old female graduate student was behind algorithms which helped capture the first-ever picture of a black hole
In the search for a way to capture an image of the black hole, located 55 million light years away …
Bill Bostock,Bill Bostock
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A pair of supermassive black holes are stuck in a collision between galaxies. Astronomers caught the chaos on camera.
"This galaxy is so complex that we could never know what is going on inside it without these detail…
Aria Bendix,Aria Bendix
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains The Science Behind Wormholes And Black Holes - And How 'Interstellar' Got It Wrong
StarTalk Radio is a podcast and radio program hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, where c…
Will Wei
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A mesmerizing photo shows powerful magnetic fields swirling around a black hole
The image illustrates that magnetic fields are strong enough to prevent some matter from getting su…
Aria Bendix
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The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy suddenly lit up brighter than scientists had ever seen, and nobody knows why
In black holes, matter gets packed into a tiny space, giving them extremely powerful gravity - Sgr …