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An illustration shows a an influx of energy causing a black hole growing

Stephen Hawking's famous 'leaky' black hole theory gets much-needed update

By Robert Lea Published

"Hawking's laws of black hole mechanics provided a satisfying connection between extreme and ordinary physics and have been the paradigm for 50 years, but they have a serious limitation."

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A screenshot from a simulation of colliding supermassive black holes

'The beacons were lit!' Scientists name merging supermassive black holes after 'Lord of the Rings' locations

By Robert Lea Published

Scientists have named two systems of colliding supermassive black holes after Lord of the Rings locations, Gondor and Rohan.

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An illustration of a supermassive black hole

Supermassive black holes: Theory, characteristics and formation

By Andrew May Published

Reference What are supermassive black holes and how are they created?

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An artist's depiction of stellar black holes in the disk of a supermassive black hole.

Around a monster black hole, smaller black holes collide in strange ways

By Meghan Bartels Published

Take three black holes and throw them into the disk surrounding a supermassive black hole and things get really weird, really fast.

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Host Galaxies of Calcium-Rich Supernovas

Lonely Supernova Likely Exiled by Merging Black Holes

By Nola Taylor Tillman Published

As galaxies merge, so do the supermassive black holes at their centers. The dance ejects stellar pairs that later explode as supernovae in isolated regions between galaxies.

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