‘Never seen before’: Black hole violently rips apart star and ‘burps’ it out years later

‘Never seen before’: Black hole violently rips apart star and ‘burps’ it out years later

In 2018, scientists observed a black hole about 650 million light-years away ripping a star into shreds because it got too close. That was about par for the course as far as black holes go. But three years later, the same black hole lit up and spewed out matter, and it didn’t swallowing anything in […]

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Black Hole Hunters: Scientists want your help in finding hidden black holes

Black Hole Hunters: Scientists want your help in finding hidden black holes

A team of researchers from the Open University and the University of Southampton is asking for public help to find black holes, some of the most mysterious and elusive objects in the known universe. The most massive stars explode when they get really old, sometimes leaving behind a large amount of mass condensed into a […]

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Hubble Space Telescope detects mass of isolated black hole in Milky Way

Hubble Space Telescope detects mass of isolated black hole in Milky Way

For the first time ever, the NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) Hubble Space Telescope has provided direct evidence for a lone black hole drifting through space by precise mass measurements of the phantom object. Until now, measurements of black holes have been inferred statistically or through interactions with binary systems or the core of galaxies. This […]

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