The light released from around the first massive black holes in the universe is so intense that it is able to reach telescopes across the entire expanse of the universe. …read more Source:: Science
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The orderly chaos of black holes
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•During the formation of a black hole a bright burst of very energetic light in the form of gamma-rays is produced, these events are called gamma-ray bursts. Researchers have built …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers find pairs of black holes at the centers of merging galaxies
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•For the first time, a team of astronomers has observed several pairs of galaxies in the final stages of merging together into single, larger galaxies. Peering through thick walls of …read more Source:: Science
Can we tell black holes apart?
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•Astrophysicists have created and compared self-consistent and realistic images of the shadow of an accreting supermassive black hole. The goal was to test if Einsteinian black holes can be distinguished …read more Source:: Science
Tens of thousands of black holes may exist in Milky Way’s center
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•Astrophysicists have discovered a dozen black holes gathered around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The finding is the first …read more Source:: Science
Black holes from small galaxies might emit gamma rays
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•Researchers have discovered seven galaxies that could shake up what astrophysicists thought they knew about how the size of a galaxy — and the black hole at its center — …read more Source:: Science
Gravitational waves could shed light on the origin of black holes
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•The detection of gravitational waves has given astronomers a new way of looking at the universe, and a new study shows how these ripples in the fabric of spacetime might …read more Source:: Science
Mystery of raging black hole beams penetrated
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•They are nature’s very own Death Star beams – ultra-powerful jets of energy that shoot out from the vicinity of black holes like deadly rays from the Star Wars super-weapon. …read more Source:: Science
Black holes with ravenous appetites define Type I active galaxies
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•Type I and Type II active galaxies do not just appear different — they are, in fact, very different from each other, both structurally and energetically, new research shows. According …read more Source:: Science
Physicists propose new theories of black holes from the very early universe
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•‘Primordial black holes,’ believed to have formed shortly after the Big Bang, might explain how heavy elements such as gold, platinum and uranium came to be, physicists report. …read more Source:: Science