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Astrophysicist Janna Levin makes getting gobbled up by a black hole sound almost beautiful, up until the point that it isn't.

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This Physicist’s Description of Falling Into a Black Hole is Surprisingly Poetic

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning extremely slowly compared to others.

Our Galaxy’s Central Black Hole Seems to Be Chilling Out for Some Reason

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found an unusual, ancient supermassive black hole that threatens our understanding of the history of the universe.

Scientists Found an Ultra-Rare Black Hole From Almost 12 Billion Years Ago

By Dan Robitzski

Astar about 215 million light-years from Earth got too close to a black hole, and got devoured in a process that scientists call "spaghettification."

Watch a Black Hole Suck Down an Entire Star Like a Spaghetti Noodle

By Jon Christian

American astronomer Andrea Ghez just won this year's Nobel prize in physics for her groundbreaking work on black holes, only the fourth woman to do so.

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Nobel Prize Winner on Falling Into a Black Hole: “I Would Not Want To”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Russian scientists suspects supermassive black holes may be traversible wormholes, and they have a plan to actually find out.

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Physicists: Supermassive Black Holes May Actually Be Wormholes

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists have turned the first ever image of a black hole released last year into a short animation by digging through their archives.

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Astrophysicists Release Landmark “Movie” of Wobbling Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

The star S62 whips around the Milky Way's central black hole at a dizzying eight percent of lightspeed. It's so fast scientists can see time slow down.

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This Star Is Moving So Fast it Visibly Warps Spacetime

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists figured out how new exoplanets could form around a black hole. They've named the theoretical worlds "blanets."

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Astronomers Say That Planets Orbiting Black Holes Are Called “Blanets”

By Dan Robitzski

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This Galaxy Cluster Is Spewing a Surplus of Stars Because of a Lazy Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Studying the rings of photons swirling around the black hole Pōwehi can help scientists understand the history of the universe.

We May Be Able to Extract “Movies” of the Universe From Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

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This Black Hole Just Glitched

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre celestial object too big to be a neutron star but too small for a black hole could undo the rules astrophysicsts use to understand the universe.

Scientists Are Baffled By a Bizarre Black Hole-Like Object

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers found an incredibly rare explosion that they think was caused by two black holes merging while orbiting an even larger one.

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When Two Black Holes Collided, NASA Spotted Something Very Surprising

By Dan Robitzski

A team of experts discovered an unusual celestial object that's 2.6 solar masses, too big to be a neutron star, too small to be a black hole.

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Astronomers May Have Discovered First-Ever “Black Neutron Star”

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists recently tested and validated the 50-year-old theory that dangling objects into a black hole then releasing them would generate power.

You Could Generate Power by Dangling Crap Into a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

New simulations on galaxy development suggest that powerful magnetic fields present in the early universe could have stunted the Milky Way's growth.

Scientists: Magnetic Fields May Have Crushed Our Entire Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers say they've found a new kind of signal coming from our galaxy's supermassive black hole, which they think are rapidly-rotating flare ups.

Astronomers Detect Signal Coming From the Heart of Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

An astrophysicist thinks that the mysterious Planet Nine may really be a six centimeter-wide black hole. And he has a plan to finally find it.

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A Black Hole May Be Orbiting Our Sun. This Guy Wants to Find It.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) claim to have spotted the closest black hole to Earth ever discovered.

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Astronomers Find Nearest Black Hole to Earth, and It’s Strange

By Victor Tangermann

After the first-ever image of a black hole, we now have the ultimate follow-up: a video of a supermassive black hole spewing out jets of particles.

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Scientists Release Incredible Video of Black Hole Spewing Matter

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have found a way to predict an intricate internal structure within black hole images caused by gravitational light bending.

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Researchers Find Captivating New Details In Image of Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers spotted a 13 billion year-old blazar given off by the most ancient supermassive black hole to be discovered yet.

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Astronomers: Here’s This Incredibly Ancient Supermassive Black Hole We Found

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made an unexpected discovery, spotting a black hole emitting a massive cloud of X-rays some 30,000 light years away.

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NASA Probe Exploring Asteroid Accidentally Snaps Black Hole Image

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from UCLA have identified six shape-shifting G objects orbiting the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

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Strange Shape-Shifting Objects Found Near Milky Way’s Black Hole

By Kristin Houser

The Milky Way might be home to two black holes and not just one — and researchers have a plan for detecting Sagittarius A*'s "hidden friend."

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Our Galaxy Might Have — Two! — Black Holes at Its Center

By Kristin Houser

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have spotted a gigantic black hole 70 times the mass of the Sun in our galaxy — way bigger than expected.

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Scientists: Ominous Black Hole Is Way Too Big to Exist

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists believe they've spotted the turbulence allowing black holes to transfer heat to the gas at the core of their galaxy clusters.

Astronomers Catch Three Black Holes “Cooking” Their Galaxies

By Kristin Houser

For the first time, astronomers have detected three supermassive black holes at the core of a galaxy — and the discovery could solve a universal mystery.

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Astronomers Spot First Galaxy With Three Supermassive Black Holes

By Kristin Houser

Scientists spotted a runaway star traveling across the galaxy so rapidly that it will never return and traced its path back to our supermassive black hole.

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A Supermassive Black Hole Yeeted This Star at 3.7 Million MPH

By Dan Robitzski

An online calculator shows what would happen if a black hole gulped down the Earth or any other objects floating around in space.

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Here’s What Would Happen if Earth Collided With a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope are upping the ante: they just announced plans to capture real-time video of our galaxy's central black hole.

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Scientists Plan to Capture a Feasting Black Hole on Video

By Dan Robitzski

A rare glimpse of a supermassive black hole obliterating a star in what's called a Tidal Disruption Event could help astrophysicists understand the cosmos.

Astronomers Just Watched a Black Hole Shred a Star

By Dan Robitzski

NASA’s New Black Hole Simulation Will Completely Melt Your Brain

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NASA’s New Black Hole Simulation Will Completely Melt Your Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists can finally take a closer look at the big, radioactive bubbles our galaxy's black hole burped out millions of years ago.

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Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Lets out Two Giant, Radioactive Burps

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just traced the path of a runaway star, first spotted in the 80s, back to its original home and learned it got cast away by a black hole.

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A Runaway Star Is Escaping a Black Hole at 1.2 Million MPH

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, astronomers recorded the gravitational waves given off by the formation of a new black hole.

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Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves From Newborn Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists think they've detected a bizarre black hole that, at 100 times the mass of our sun, is twice the theoretical size limit.

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Spotted: A Black Hole That Shouldn’t Be Physically Possible

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers observed the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way called Sagittarius A* flare up growing 75 times brighter than usual.

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The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Just Did Something Wild

By Victor Tangermann

A distant black hole is surrounded by a much larger disk of spacestuff than scientists expected, giving them a rare glimpse of special relativity in action.

This Might Be the Strangest Black Hole Yet

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of creating "dead zones," the radiation from black holes could facilitate the emergence of life on a nearby planet, according to a Harvard study.

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Harvard Scientists: Radiation From Black Holes May Create Life

By Kristin Houser

A new NASA study reveals why the Milky Way's black hole is so tranquil: a powerful and unique magnetic field is holding it at bay.

Here’s What’s Keeping the Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole at Bay

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers just got their best look at the swirling layers of gas that orbit the black hole at the center of the Milky Way

Something Is Blocking the View of Our Galaxy’s Giant Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists created a sonic black hole in the lab and then took its temperature — and the measurement seems to confirm a prediction made by Stephen Hawking.

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Scientists Just Took the Temperature of a Lab-Made Black Hole

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers are looking to get a much higher resolution shot of a black hole by sending two to three satellites into Earth orbit.

Explained: Why the Next Black Hole Image Will Be Incredible

By Victor Tangermann

The black hole V404 Cygni was caught shooting plasma jets in rapidly changing directions — all while its gravitational pull dragged the fabric of spacetime.

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Bizarre Black Hole “Drags” Spacetime, Blasts Wobbling Plasma Jets

By Kristin Houser

In 2013, scientists were in the middle of studying the black hole at the center of the galaxy when a neutron star flared up and blocked their view.

A City-Sized Star Is Blocking the View of Our Galaxy’s Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

A language professor created the black hole's name, Pōwehi, by combining two words from an 18th-century Hawaiian chant called the Kumulipo.

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The M87 Black Hole Now Has an Epic Name

By Kristin Houser

A team from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has shared an image that puts the first black hole photo into stunning context.

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The First Black Hole Photo Is Even More Amazing When You Zoom Out

By Kristin Houser

Katie Bouman, a 29-year-old computer scientist, led the development of the algorithm that made the first black hole image possible.

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We Wouldn’t Have the First Black Hole Image Without Katie Bouman

By Kristin Houser

The black hole that scientists imaged is a stellar giant. It would take millions of Earths lined up side-by-side to span its length.

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Here’s How Big the M87 Black Hole Is Compared to the Earth

By Dan Robitzski

The first-ever black hole image is a blurry orange ring. During the announcement, scientists described how they're working to improve the resolution.

Scientists: Next Black Hole Image Will Be Way Clearer

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have released the first image of a black hole, and it looks like they expected based on Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

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The World’s First Black Hole Image Vindicates Einstein’s Theory

By Kristin Houser

Scientists Just Released the First-Ever Image of a Black Hole

Scientists Just Released the First-Ever Image of a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday morning, an international team of scientists will release the first-ever images of black holes. Quite understandably, scientists are pumped.

Here’s Why Everyone’s so Excited About the Black Hole Image

By Dan Robitzski

The goal is to look past the space debris to see its event horizon.

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Astronomers Are Teasing the First-Ever Photo of a Black Hole

By Jon Christian

This ultra-high-definition 360 degree visualization comes courtesy of data collected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's Ames supercomputer.

360-Degree Video Puts You in the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

“Halo Drive” Would Use Black Holes to Power Spaceships

“Halo Drive” Would Use Black Holes to Power Spaceships

By Jon Christian

Researchers have captured the best-ever image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Here’s the Best-Ever Image of the Black Hole Devouring Our Galaxy

By Jon Christian

By watching a black hole devour a star, researchers from MIT were able to determine that it's spinning faster than 50 percent the speed of light.

Here’s Why MIT Scientists Are Watching a Black Hole Devour a Star

By Kristin Houser

A team of physicists created a 360 video that takes people on a tour of a realistic simulation of the black hole in the middle of the Milky Way.

360-Degree Video Shows What It’s Like to Fall Into a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

New Image Confirms a Black Hole is Swallowing Our Galaxy

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New Image Confirms a Black Hole is Swallowing Our Galaxy

By Kristin Houser

This Year, We’ll See a Black Hole for the First Time in History

This Year, We’ll See a Black Hole for the First Time in History

By Kristin Houser

Ancient Supermassive Black Hole Unveils Secrets of Early Universe

Ancient Supermassive Black Hole Unveils Secrets of Early Universe