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A Black Hole Hitting A Star Created A Never-Before-Seen Type Of Supernovaartost mpression of a small black hole ripping apart a star as they are both surrounded by a disk of material

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A Black Hole Hitting A Star Created A Never-Before-Seen Type Of Supernovaartost mpression of a small black hole ripping apart a star as they are both surrounded by a disk of material
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A Black Hole Hitting A Star Created A Never-Before-Seen Type Of Supernova

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Most Distant Black Hole Ever Confirmed From 500 Million Years After The Big BangAn artist impression showing a dark sphere at the center, the black hole, surrounded by a large fluffy cloud. The supermassive black hole at its center is believed to be surrounded by a thick cloud of gas, giving the galaxy a distinctive red color

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Most Distant Black Hole Ever Confirmed From 500 Million Years After The Big BangAn artist impression showing a dark sphere at the center, the black hole, surrounded by a large fluffy cloud. The supermassive black hole at its center is believed to be surrounded by a thick cloud of gas, giving the galaxy a distinctive red color
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Most Distant Black Hole Ever Confirmed From 500 Million Years After The Big Bang

clock-iconAugust 8, 2025
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New Monster Black Hole 36.3 Billion Times Our Sun May Be “Most Massive” Ever FoundA yellow round fuzzy galaxy is surrounded by a stretch blue structure almost creating a full circle

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New Monster Black Hole 36.3 Billion Times Our Sun May Be “Most Massive” Ever FoundA yellow round fuzzy galaxy is surrounded by a stretch blue structure almost creating a full circle
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New Monster Black Hole 36.3 Billion Times Our Sun May Be “Most Massive” Ever Found

clock-iconAugust 7, 2025
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An Interstellar Mission To Visit A Black Hole Might Only Take 70 Years, Astrophysicist Saysan artist render of a black hole in space

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An Interstellar Mission To Visit A Black Hole Might Only Take 70 Years, Astrophysicist Saysan artist render of a black hole in space
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An Interstellar Mission To Visit A Black Hole Might Only Take 70 Years, Astrophysicist Says

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Extremely Rare Black Hole Type Caught Snacking On A Star 450 Million Light-Years AwayA Hubble Space Telescope image of a pair of galaxies: NGC 6099 (lower left) and NGC 6098 (upper right). The purple blob depicts X-ray emission from a compact star cluster hiding an intermediate-mass black hole tearing apart a star.

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Extremely Rare Black Hole Type Caught Snacking On A Star 450 Million Light-Years AwayA Hubble Space Telescope image of a pair of galaxies: NGC 6099 (lower left) and NGC 6098 (upper right). The purple blob depicts X-ray emission from a compact star cluster hiding an intermediate-mass black hole tearing apart a star.
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Extremely Rare Black Hole Type Caught Snacking On A Star 450 Million Light-Years Away

clock-iconJuly 28, 2025
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IFLScience The Big Questions: How Do Black Holes Shape The Universe?A phone showing season 5 of The Big Questions, on background of a rusty colored planet's surface looking out onto a black hole

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IFLScience The Big Questions: How Do Black Holes Shape The Universe?A phone showing season 5 of The Big Questions, on background of a rusty colored planet's surface looking out onto a black hole
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IFLScience The Big Questions: How Do Black Holes Shape The Universe?

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Black Hole Moon: Rogue Planets With Weird Signatures Could Be A Sign Of Advanced Alien LifeIllustration of a rogue planet.

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Black Hole Moon: Rogue Planets With Weird Signatures Could Be A Sign Of Advanced Alien LifeIllustration of a rogue planet.
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Black Hole Moon: Rogue Planets With Weird Signatures Could Be A Sign Of Advanced Alien Life

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The Black Hole Universe: New Model Suggests The Big Bang Was Not The Beginning Of EverythingA black hole (artist impression).

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The Black Hole Universe: New Model Suggests The Big Bang Was Not The Beginning Of EverythingA black hole (artist impression).
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The Black Hole Universe: New Model Suggests The Big Bang Was Not The Beginning Of Everything

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Updated Prognosis: The Universe May End 10¹⁰²² Years Sooner Than We ThoughtThe Butterfly Nebula.

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Updated Prognosis: The Universe May End 10¹⁰²² Years Sooner Than We ThoughtThe Butterfly Nebula.
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Updated Prognosis: The Universe May End 10¹⁰²² Years Sooner Than We Thought

clock-iconMay 12, 2025
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Black Holes Can Exist Without Singularities, Two New Models Suggestshecamtic view of a black hole as a dark sphere warping space time so it looks a bit like saturn and its rings

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Black Holes Can Exist Without Singularities, Two New Models Suggestshecamtic view of a black hole as a dark sphere warping space time so it looks a bit like saturn and its rings
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Black Holes Can Exist Without Singularities, Two New Models Suggest

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How Could Humanity (Or Aliens) Use A Black Hole To Harvest Energy?Black hole illustration.

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How Could Humanity (Or Aliens) Use A Black Hole To Harvest Energy?Black hole illustration.
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How Could Humanity (Or Aliens) Use A Black Hole To Harvest Energy?

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We Caught A Black Hole Waking Up – And There's Something Odd About Its FlaresA bright disc of purplish, white and gold lines surrounds a black ellipse-shaped area, that looks like a hole in space. A ball of shining material pierces through the disc; an eruption of bright white-to-gold rays encircles the small hole in the disc provoked by the passage of the shining ball

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We Caught A Black Hole Waking Up – And There's Something Odd About Its FlaresA bright disc of purplish, white and gold lines surrounds a black ellipse-shaped area, that looks like a hole in space. A ball of shining material pierces through the disc; an eruption of bright white-to-gold rays encircles the small hole in the disc provoked by the passage of the shining ball
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We Caught A Black Hole Waking Up – And There's Something Odd About Its Flares

clock-iconApril 11, 2025
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The Scientists Who Think The Third Dimension May Be An IllusionA 2 dimensional game world.

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The Scientists Who Think The Third Dimension May Be An IllusionA 2 dimensional game world.
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The Scientists Who Think The Third Dimension May Be An Illusion

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Clues To Our Galaxy's Fate Seen In One Of The Largest Radio Sources Ever FoundSpiral galaxy.

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Clues To Our Galaxy's Fate Seen In One Of The Largest Radio Sources Ever FoundSpiral galaxy.
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Clues To Our Galaxy's Fate Seen In One Of The Largest Radio Sources Ever Found

clock-iconMarch 24, 2025
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Unexpected JWST Observations Hint We Might Be Inside A Black HoleSpiral galaxies imaged by JWST.

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Unexpected JWST Observations Hint We Might Be Inside A Black HoleSpiral galaxies imaged by JWST.
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Unexpected JWST Observations Hint We Might Be Inside A Black Hole

clock-iconMarch 13, 2025
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