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Black holes slamming into scorching stars may be causing mysterious blue flashes in the cosmos
Powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients could be caused when a black hole or neutron star slams into the universe's hottest class of star.
How do the biggest black holes in the universe form? Ripples in spacetime provide a clue
Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics.
James Webb Space Telescope's strange little red dots may really be 'black hole stars', X-ray data suggests
Finding X-rays coming from one of the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could be the key to answering what these weird objects truly are.
Did decaying dark matter help create the universe's first supermassive black holes?
"With the James Webb Space Telescope now revealing more supermassive black holes in the early universe, this mechanism may help bridge the gap between theory and observation."
'Dancing' jets erupting from a cannibalistic black hole have the power of 10,000 suns
Astronomers have discovered that jets from a cannibalistic black hole are erupting with the power of 10,000 suns.
Ripples in spacetime may have revealed 1st evidence of tiny black holes born in the Big Bang
Gravitational waves may have provided the first tantalizing evidence of tiny primordial black holes born during the Big Bang, which could account for dark matter.
Galaxy starves its supermassive black hole, loses 95% of its brightness
"It is fascinating that an active galactic nucleus can change its brightness so dramatically over such a short period of time."
Could our universe exist because black holes ate up all the antimatter?
Did primordial black holes born during the Big Bang swallow the universe's antimatter, allowing matter to dominate the cosmos?
