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A dying star could create a new universe instead of a black hole

Massive stars produce light and heat through nuclear fusion, a process that releases enormous amounts of energy from their cores.…

4 days ago

Black hole jets measured for first time and rival the power of 10,000 suns

Researchers have taken a major step toward understanding how black holes influence the universe by directly measuring the power of…

2 months ago

The early universe supercharged black hole growth

One of astronomy's longest standing puzzles has been understanding how black holes grew so large in such a short span…

5 months ago

Astronomers just watched a black hole twist spacetime

The universe has delivered a rare breakthrough for researchers chasing one of the hardest effects to catch in the night…

6 months ago

Rogue black hole shocks astronomers with record radio blast

For the first time, scientists have observed a tidal disruption event (TDE) -- a phenomenon in which a black hole…

8 months ago

This tiny spacecraft could race to a black hole and rewrite physics

It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam and hurtling through…

10 months ago

AI Reveals Milky Way’s Black Hole Spins Near Top Speed

An international team of astronomers has trained a neural network with millions of synthetic simulations and artificial intelligence (AI) to…

1 year ago

Study reveals healing the ozone hole helps the Southern Ocean take up carbon

New research suggests that the negative effects of the ozone hole on the carbon uptake of the Southern Ocean are…

1 year ago

NASA Solves Black Hole Jet X-ray Mystery with IXPE’s Polarization Powers

The blazar BL Lacertae, a giant black hole with jets, facing the earth, have made scientists curious about how X-rays…

1 year ago

From boring to bursting: Giant black hole awakens

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our Sun) lurk at the centre of…

1 year ago