The first black hole image, announced in April 2019, received a sublime reception and everyone wants more
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Astronomy
If you put all of the stars in the night sky together, how bright would Earth’s sky be?
What would happen if a wave of a magic wand put all the stars together in the night sky?
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NASA’s space observatory captures unusual event gone in a flash
Astronomers predict that a black hole or neutron star could be the cause for this dramatic event
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What would happen if you fed antimatter into a black hole?
Find out what would happen if antimatter were to come across one of the universe’s most exotic objects
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Future Tech: Can black holes be used to power interstellar spacecraft?
Space flight between the stars will need a tremendous amount of energy – and we may be able to store it in a miniature black hole
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Astronomers discover an ancient black hole hidden behind a mask of gas
This important evidence could prove the existence of a black hole just 850 million years after the Big Bang
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Hubble spots a strange thin disc at the core of a nearby galaxy
The disc orbits a black hole 250 times the mass of our Sun and it speeds material up to unimaginable speeds
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Wobbling cosmic jets are being warped by a black hole and its powerful gravity
The space around the black hole V404 Cygni is being pushed and pulled by its gravity, which causes a wobble on its relativistic jets
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The story of M87: The galaxy behind the black hole image
The Event Horizon Telescope recently released a historic picture of M87’s black hole silhouette, but what else is there to know about the host galaxy?
Q & A
Quiz: How well do you know black holes?
Think you know everything there is about space’s weirdest objects? See how well you score in our quick-fire!
Astronomy
Watch Live: First black hole image? Major discovery to be announced today
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is set to release its first results – tune in wherever you are in the world
Space Exploration
Heroes of Space: Professor Stephen Hawking
We take a look at the life so far of one of the greatest physicists of the modern day.
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Astronomers spot a distant galactic fountain
The continuous outflow and inflow of molecular gas in the galaxy cluster Abell 2597 has never been seen before
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Black hole’s flaring hot spots prove decade-old theory
The recent detection of flares circling the heavy-weight objects has revealed how they grow and consume matter
Astronomy
Black hole detection could increase dramatically with exciting new technique
Astronomers devise new strategy which could lead to a triplication in the number of known stellar mass black holes
Solar System
What would happen if a black hole entered our Solar System?
Hint: it doesn’t end well for Earth…
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What is a mini black hole?
Are these dense objects scattered throughout the universe?
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Could a white hole lie on the other side of a black hole?
Could there be anything on the other side of these massive gravitational wells?
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What is a black hole made of?
What do we know about these rather intense gravitational regions?
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Black holes are ruled out in explaining dark matter
Astronomers are still hunting down the mysterious dark matter that makes up most of the matter in the Universe