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The Black Hole Finder app is a citizen science project that can be accessed around the world. I'm sitting on a plane staring at three grainy black-and-white images on my phone. "Real or bogus," I ...
The black hole is fairly quiet most of the time, only occasionally gobbling up material in its vicinity and letting out bursts of light and energy. But that doesn’t mean it’s just lying there.
A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.. The distant object, dubbed "1ES 1927+654" and packing the mass of 1 million suns, previously stunned astronomers when its corona ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long flares as well as short flashes every day.
Scientists confirm an 8,200-solar-mass black hole in the Omega Centauri cluster using 20 years of Hubble data, shedding light on black hole formation and evolution.
New research suggests black holes may transition into 'white holes', ejecting matter and potentially even time back into the universe, defying our current understanding of these cosmic giants.
In 2018, a distant black hole threw a fit. The 1.4-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of the galaxy 1ES 1927+654 some 270 million light-years away suddenly began spewing radiation ...