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Hubble telescope hunts for a black hole among a brilliant field of stars (photo)

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of a distant star cluster that could help us better understand how such clusters evolve and even reveal the elusive black holes at their hearts.

Space

Hungry black hole shoots out bright X-ray jet 60,000 times hotter than the sun

Observing a powerful feeding black hole in X-ray light has allowed astronomers to peer into the inner workings of what is the brightest quasar seen in the last 9 billion years of cosmic history.

Space

Black Holes Could Work as Time Machines — If You Want to Die

Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don’t expect to be heading back to visit the dinosaurs any time soon.

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Supermassive black hole at heart of ancient galaxy ‘far larger than expected’

Discovery of GS-9209, one of the furthest from the Milky Way, adds to evidence that large black holes prevent star formation, astronomers say

The Guardian - UK

AI is helping astronomers make new discoveries about the universe faster than ever before

AI has now spread into every field of astronomy and is helping astronomers learn more about the universe at an astonishing rate.

Space

A rare type of black hole never proven to exist could be orbiting our galaxy right now, Hubble telescope reveals

A potential intermediate-mass black hole may be lurking in Messier 4, the nearest globular star cluster to Earth, new Hubble data reveals.

LiveScience

Gravitational wave lab LIGO roars back online to detect the oldest black hole collisions ever seen

LIGO has been upgraded to observe gigantic black hole mergers 5 billion light-years away.

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Cuts warning as Scottish Government anticipates £1bn spending shortfall

THE Scottish Government will need to “reset” its spending plans against a forecast £1 billion black hole in its budget, the Finance Secretary…

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Hill-favored projects called defense budget’s ‘black hole’

WASHINGTON -- Congress directed the Pentagon to spend $12.2 billion in the current fiscal year on nearly 1,000 different “program increases” in the Defense spending bill’s research account alone, projects pushed by lawmakers that the Defense Department did not publicly request, according to a previously unpublicized database.

Tribune News Service

Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rare black hole lurking in our cosmic backyard (video)

Data from the Hubble Space Telescope about the nearby M4 globular cluster suggests a rare midsize black hole may be lurking at its center.

Space

Hubble May Have Finally Found a Black Hole "Missing Link"

Hubble astronomers claim to have found a nearby intermediate-mass black hole, an elusive kind of object yet-to-be confirmed.

Inverse

Strange star system may hold first evidence of an ultra-rare 'dark matter star'

In a distant star system, a sunlike star orbits an invisible object that may be the first example of a 'boson star' made of dark matter, new research suggests.

LiveScience

Edinburgh scientists discover massive star-studded galaxy with a 'big surprise'

A team of experts from the University of Edinburgh discovered a 'massive and densely packed' galaxy, which sits 25 million light years away from earth - and were surprised to find a 'massive black hole'.

Edinburgh Live

Hill-favored projects called defense budget's 'black hole' - Roll Call

Member-driven increases to research projects within the Pentagon's budget have surged, with little scrutiny.

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Union members 'unanimously support' no confidence vote in Perth College management after redundancies announcement

A total of 50 jobs will go at the college as a result of a £3 million funding black hole - with more potentially to follow

Space

Some black holes may actually be tangles in the fabric of space-time, new research suggests

A new paper discusses how light interacts with theoretical objects called "topological solitons" — kinks in the fabric of space-time that look just like black holes.

Space

Scientists just grew a black hole disk in a lab to better understand how they feed

Scientists have created a rotating disk of plasma in the lab that mimics the accretion disks that surround black holes, gradually feeding them and facilitating their growth.

Wales Online

Beam of light from star 9.6billion miles away spotted by astronomers

The light is 100,000 billion times brighter than the sun

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100 black hole jets aimed at Earth unleash controversial physics theory

A flavor of black hole known as a blazar often exhibits behavior that defies explanation. A new study of 106 supermassive black holes may shed some light.

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Scientists grow swirling 'black hole rings' in the lab for the 1st time

Scientists smashed plasma jets together to create artificial accretion disks that could help reveal how black holes grow.

Space

What happened to the missing stars at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy?

The stellar companions of more than a dozen stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy have gone missing — and astronomers want to know why.

LiveScience

Some black holes may actually be tangles in the fabric of space-time, new research suggests

A new paper discusses how light interacts with theoretical objects called "topological solitons" — kinks in the fabric of space-time that look just like black holes.

Space

Violent origins of gravitational waves probed by new telescope array

The new BlackGEM array will hunt for black hole mergers and neutron star collisions, cataclysmic events that generate ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves.

Space

The most powerful black holes in the universe may finally have an explanation

Quasars, the most extreme phenomena in the universe, are triggered when galactic collisions deliver gas to feeding black holes, new research suggests.

Inverse

Astronomers Discover the Dark Source of the Brightest Cosmic Blast Ever

AT2021lwx is outshining and outlasting supernovas by a big margin.

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