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Astronomers Spot Possible Biggest Black Hole in the Universe
Astronomers have identified an ultramassive black hole that could be the largest ever measured, hidden in a distant galaxy known as the Cosmic Horseshoe. This gargantuan object, weighing about 36 billion Suns, warps space so strongly that light from a background galaxy is bent into a perfect Einstein ring.
Astronomers using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Very Large Array (VLA) have caught a supermassive black hole in ...
Astronomers have identified a 36-billion-solar-mass black hole in the distant Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy, using a new technique ...
A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...
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Saturday Citations: Video games and brain activity; a triple black hole system; neutralizing Skynet
It's August, which means Hot Science Summer is two-thirds over. This week, NASA released an exceptionally pretty photo of ...
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Could We Send a Superlight Spacecraft to a Theoretical Nearby Black Hole?
An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...
Sheffield Council is to freeze recruitment for six months as it grapples with a budget gap of more than £28m. The authority ...
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'Ice cube' clouds discovered at the galaxy's center shouldn't exist — and they hint at a recent black hole explosion
Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold ...
Calculations suggest stars that are very viscous could reflect gravitational waves and produce signals very similar to those ...
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