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Astronomy Apr 10, 2019

Astronomers deliver first photo of black hole

Astronomers on Wednesday unveiled the first photo of a black hole, one of the star-devouring monsters scattered throughout the Universe and obscured by impenetrable shields of gravity.

Astronomy Mar 18, 2020

Research team discovers path to razor-sharp black hole images

Last April, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) sparked international excitement when it unveiled the first image of a black hole. Today, a team of researchers have published new calculations that predict a striking and intricate ...

Astronomy Apr 16, 2020

Very Large Telescope sees star dance around supermassive black hole, proves Einstein right

Observations made with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed for the first time that a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by Einstein's general theory ...

Astronomy Sep 10, 2019

Are black holes made of dark energy?

Two University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein's equations to model the growth of the universe.

Astronomy Aug 24, 2022

Here's what a black hole sounds like, according to NASA. Yes, it's 'frightening'

NASA this week shared an audio clip on social media that allows you to "hear" a black hole.

General Physics Feb 21, 2018

Some black holes erase your past

In the real world, your past uniquely determines your future. If a physicist knows how the universe starts out, she can calculate its future for all time and all space.

Astronomy Jan 22, 2020

Gravitational wave echoes may confirm Stephen Hawking's hypothesis of quantum black holes

Echoes in gravitational wave signals suggest that the event horizon of a black hole may be more complicated than scientists currently think.

Astronomy Aug 16, 2022

Black hole collisions could help us measure how fast the universe is expanding

A black hole is usually where information goes to disappear—but scientists may have found a trick to use its last moments to tell us about the history of the universe.

Astronomy Nov 13, 2017

Gravitational waves from merging supermassive black holes will be spotted within 10 years, study predicts

Astronomers won't have to wait much longer for their first glimpse of one of the biggest types of unions in the cosmos. New research published November 13 in Nature Astronomy predicts that gravitational waves generated by ...

General Physics Feb 19, 2021

Researchers observe stationary Hawking radiation in an analog black hole

Black holes are regions in space where gravity is very strong—so strong that nothing that enters them can escape, including light. Theoretical predictions suggest that there is a radius surrounding black holes known as ...

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