Scientists have developed a new method to find black holes in the outer solar system, and along with it, determine once-and-for-all the true nature of the hypothesized Planet Nine. …read more Source:: Science
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To find giant black holes, start with Jupiter
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•On a quest to find the Universe’s largest black holes, researchers identify the center of the solar system within 100 meters. …read more Source:: Science
Spitzer telescope reveals the precise timing of a black hole dance
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•Scientists have finally figured out the precise timing of a complicated dance between two enormous black holes, revealing hidden details about the physical characteristics of these mysterious cosmic objects. …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers find wandering massive black holes in dwarf galaxies
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•Studies with the VLA indicate that roughly half of the massive black holes in dwarf galaxies are not in the centers of those galaxies. This gives astronomers new insights into …read more Source:: Science
A new theory for how black holes and neutron stars shine bright
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•Astrophysicists employed massive super-computer simulations to calculate the mechanisms that accelerate charged particles in extreme environments. They concluded their energization is powered by the interplay of chaotic motion and reconnection …read more Source:: Science
Hubble uncovers black hole that shouldn’t exist
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•As if black holes weren’t mysterious enough, astronomers have found an unexpected thin disk of material furiously whirling around a supermassive black hole at the heart of the magnificent spiral …read more Source:: Science
Dark matter is not made up of tiny black holes
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•An international team of researchers has put a theory speculated by the late Stephen Hawking to its most rigorous test to date, and their results have ruled out the possibility …read more Source:: Science
Listening to the quantum vacuum
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•Since the historic finding of gravitational waves from two black holes colliding over a billion light years away was made in 2015, physicists are advancing knowledge about the limits on …read more Source:: Science
Can entangled qubits be used to probe black holes?
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•Information escapes from black holes via Hawking radiation, so it should be possible to capture it and use it to reconstruct what fell in: if given time longer than the …read more Source:: Science
How to escape a black hole: Simulations provide new clues about powerful plasma jets
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•New simulations have combined decades-old theories to provide new insight about the driving mechanisms in plasma jets that allows them to steal energy from black holes’ powerful gravitational fields and …read more Source:: Science