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Astronomers Watched a Black Hole Unexpectedly Flip Its Magnetic Field, Challenging Theoretical Models
A series of observations between 2017 and 2021 suggest the supermassive structure’s magnetized plasma is more dynamic than ...
One of the most powerful black holes in the universe is belching out gas at speeds of up to 10,000 kilometers per second, ...
At the heart of a quasar galaxy called RACS J0320-35, just 920 million years after the Big Bang, the black hole appears to be ...
The new black hole is 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at centre of our Milky Way galaxy.
ScienceAlert on MSN
Powerful Particle Detection Could Mean We've Already Found an Exploding Black Hole
A tiny particle that smashed into Earth with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts could be the last scream of ...
Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.
Today In The Space World on MSN
This Black Hole Shouldn’t Exist — But It Does!
Phoenix A, a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Phoenix Cluster, is one of the largest ever discovered, with an ...
Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...
The discovery that black hole growth may not be limited to galactic centers could shed light on the role supermassive black ...
A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...
Astronomers have reported a colossal find in a famous warped ring of light. Inside the galaxy that forms the Cosmic Horseshoe, researchers measured a black hole weighing 36 billion suns. The inner ...
Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...
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