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Latest News About Black Holes
A black hole is a location in space that possesses so much gravity, nothing can escape its pull, even light. Learn more about what black holes are and the latest news.
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Talk about a big eater. This monster ate a star 1 million times the mass of our sun.
This week we saw rare volcanoes discovered on the moon and questioned whether we are truly alone in the universe.
They include a giant meteorite, zero gravity printers for space, a black hole gobbling up gas and more.
This amazing space wallpaper shows X-rays from Chandra and optical data from the VLT of the galaxy NGC 3115.
A NASA observatory has clearly observed the flow of hot gas toward a black hole for the first time in X-ray wavelengths.
For the first time, clear evidence of gas flow falling towards a black hole has been witnessed. Observations of galaxy NGC 3115, harboring this supermassive void, were made by the Chandra Observatory and Europe's Very Large Telescope.
Astronomers are applying their knowledge of stars and black holes to medical treatment.
The last spacewalk of the shuttle era, space-time warps and what happens when a space toilet gets clogged, vote for your favorite space story this week.
The super-bright galaxy ULAS J1120+0641 is also the most distant quasar ever seen.
The super-bright galaxy ULAS J1120+0641 is also the most distant quasar ever seen.
These are the three things people most want to know about the universe they live in.
New discoveries suggest that black holes and galaxies may be born together. Hubble and Chandra teams combined the deepest X-ray image ever made with some of the faintest light ever photographed.
A supermassive black hole in the galaxy GRS 1915+105 spins and swallows stellar material with an even rhythmic pattern, the Chandra X-ray observatory has discovered.
Did a massive black hole in a distant galaxy devour a star that wandered too close, producing a bright jet pointed at Earth?
Astronomers have detected the earliest black holes yet – and they're revealing secrets about the galaxies they live in.
Leading astrophysicists explain why only certain stars will end their lives as black holes.
Care to make a black hole? These astrophysicists are happy to share the recipe. It just might take you some time to assemble the ingredients.
The galaxy Markarian 739 has not one, but two ginormous black holes in its core.
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