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The black hole at the centre of the Galaxy -- 5.3. Supermassive black holes in other galaxies -- 5.3.1. Intermediate mass black holes -- 5.3.2. Mini black holes -- 5.4. Further evidence for black hole ...
Aesop Rock, Black Hole Superette (Rhymesayers) Aesop Rock has been making what was once considered “experimental” hip hop for so long now that all that’s left from album to album is pure outcome, ...
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Schwarzschild black holes, named after German physicist Karl Schwarzschild, have no rotation or electric field. Also known as quasi-normal modes (QNMs), they are also hypothetical. Researchers defined ...
It’s the largest black hole jet we’ve discovered to date. What makes this particular jet so exciting for astronomers is not only its size. It’s also estimated to be 1.2 billion years old.
The Event Horizon black hole project performed more than 12 million computing jobs in the past three years. "A workload that consists of millions of simulations is a perfect match for our ...
Why black holes explode stars. Supernova explosions cannot account for the energies involved. Even the mightiest supernova releases only a fraction of an ENT’s light. Ordinary black hole feeding ...
Astronomers have announced the discovery of Extreme Nuclear Transients, slow-motion cosmic blasts brighter than 100 supernovae caused by massive stars near black holes.
A new theory published in the journal Physical Review D proposes that the universe may have originated from a massive black hole rather than the Big Bang. The idea, called the "black hole universe ...
Each of the supermassive black holes the researchers described lies at the center of a distant galaxy. And each were observed to have suddenly brightened for several months after shredding up a ...
This idea, which we call the black hole universe, offers a radically different view of cosmic origins, yet it is grounded entirely in known physics and observations. Today’s standard cosmological ...
An artist's concept of a black hole orbited by a neutron star. Image: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) When a black hole and a neutron star finally meet, the result is cosmic carnage—and now, thanks to ...