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"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...
Plenty of groups have been theorizing about primordial black holes (PBHs) recently. That is in part because of their ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...
Scientists working to study black holes use specific radio frequencies to track black holes, the same frequencies often used ...
The object, named NGC 6099 HLX-1, first appeared in 2009. Chandra caught the bright X-ray flash near the galaxy’s outskirts.
Astronomers track Earth’s position using faint signals from black holes, but the explosion of Wifi and phone use threatens ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made its mark by capturing its first-ever observations of tidal disruption events ...
Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.
NASA's Hubble and Chandra X-ray Observatories have identified a rare intermediate-mass black hole, NGC 6099 HLX-1, consuming ...
However, these “dormant” singularities will occasionally come into contact with stars and other objects as they move around the galaxy. If they come too close, these objects are gobbled up by the ...
Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...