Stellar black hole articles
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Scientists found a colossal black hole near the dawn of time
Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to find a supermassive black hole in a galaxy active when the universe was only 430 million years old.
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New black hole visualization takes viewers beyond the brink
Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, viewers can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole's point of no return.
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Hairy black holes? A new space mission could help answer questions
Physicists consider black holes one of the most mysterious objects that exist. Ironically, they’re also considered one of the simplest. For years, physicists like me have been looking to prove that black holes are more complex than they seem. And a newly approved European space mission called LISA will help us with this hunt. Research from the 1970s suggests that you can comprehensively describe a black hole using only three physical attributes – their mass, charge and spin. All the other...