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The polarity of a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, unexpectedly flipped.
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By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers say they've found evidence of an ancient and never directly observed class of object known as a primordial black hole.
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By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that large planets can accumulate enough black matter in their cores to spawn a destructive black hole.
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By Frank Landymore

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.
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By Frank Landymore

An incredible object form by two colliding galaxies may be the site of a recently formed supermassive black hole.
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By Frank Landymore

If the Big Bang actually happened inside a black hole, it could neatly explain some of the universe's biggest mysteries.
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By Frank Landymore

Physicists say they've built the first-ever "black hole bomb" — an ominous-sounding concept that dates back to the late 1960s.
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By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests our observable universe may be trapped inside a black hole after examining a James Webb Space Telescope survey.
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By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers say they've discovered one of the most masssive black holes ever discovered in the Cosmic Horseshoe.
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By Victor Tangermann

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists witnessed a brilliant light show at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

The hole in the first-ever image of a black hole released a massive burp of gamma rays while astronomers were staring at it.
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By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted a black hole that's gobbling up matter at a seemingly impossible rate, surpassing previous limits.
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By Victor Tangermann

New observations uncovered more supermassive black holes than previously detected, which could hold clues to how they first formed.
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By Frank Landymore

New NASA data shows a supermassive black hole on a merciless killing spree, destroying one star and using its body as a new weapon.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A supermassive black hole is shooting out a jet so intense it's causing stars along its path to erupt in explosions called novas.
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By Frank Landymore

If true, this could resolve the information paradox posed by the existence of black holes, as first pointed out by Stephen Hawking.
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By Frank Landymore