A nearby black hole as a window into the early universe

An international team led by Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn has studied a ...
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Physicist Clifford Johnson explains what’s really inside a black hole

Star is about to transform into a black hole. And we’re about to travel inside it to see what’s on the other side. The only ...
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Physicists just got the closest-ever look at a black hole's event horizon

Physicists isolated the ‘last sound’ of a black hole collision, providing an unprecedented glimpse of the region right next ...

You can now walk through space and gaze into a black hole at this VR exhibit

Smithsonian Starstruck lets visitors walk through the Big Bang, brush past the Sun, and gaze into a black hole, all without ...
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Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in a Lab. Then It Started to 'Evaporate'.

(remotevfx/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The one thing we all 'know' about black holes is that nothing escapes their ineluctable ...

Dynamic black holes may obey Hawking-style thermodynamics with an alternative entropy measure

Of the known things in the universe, black holes are among the most extreme. They pack huge amounts of mass densely into a ...
New Scientist

This physicist is hunting for the biggest black hole in the universe

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of Our Galaxy Seems to Be Blowing Wind—Just as Scientists Long Theorized

Scientists have been searching for evidence of this breeze since the 1970s. They've seen intense wind from other black holes, but they've struggled to observe the one at the Milky Way's center ...
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Black hole's 'point of no escape' studied with the loudest gravitational waves ever heard

The loudest crash of gravitational waves ever heard provides an intriguing way of studying event horizons, the boundaries at ...

Physicists Devise Black Hole Alternative With a ‘Mini Universe’ at Its Center

Thanks to the Event Horion Telescope, we now know black holes exist, but a new study published recently in Physical Review D ...

Can you make a black hole in a laboratory?

An artist’s rendering of a black hole like the one in the center of our galaxy. While the black disk in the center is the ...

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