When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...
Wednesday, Jan. 8 and 15, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app —Discover how scientists are revealing new clues to the strangest and most extreme objects in the universe— They are ...
Black holes get a bad rap. They’ve been cast as the monsters of the cosmos — gobbling up stars and stretching anything that gets too close into cosmic spaghetti. But Black Hole expert Janna Levin has ...
Black holes aren’t just cosmic monsters — they’re simply misunderstood. Black holes get a bad rap. They’ve been cast as the monsters of the cosmos — gobbling up stars and stretching anything that gets ...
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Researchers Just Revealed the First-Ever Image of Two Black Holes Orbiting Each Other
A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...
A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...
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Rule-breaking black hole destroys star in puzzling way: 'This is truly extraordinary'
"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...
Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...
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Astronomers detect radio signals from a black hole tearing apart a star—outside a galactic center
An international team of astronomers has discovered the first tidal disruption event (TDE) producing bright radio emission ...
WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as ...
It’s nearly 10 billion light-years away, and you won’t see it in the night sky, but the explosive collision of two massive black holes detected in 2023 has created a third one, with 225 times the mass ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
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