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One of the most massive black holes was discovered. It's 35 billion times the size of our sun

Astronomers have used a new method to weigh the ultramassive black hole. They hope this will help them better understand how ...

Astronomers catch supermassive black hole in the act of 'waking up'

Astronomers using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Very Large Array (VLA) have caught a supermassive black hole in ...
Science Daily1d

This tiny spacecraft could race to a black hole and rewrite physics

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d

Could We Send a Superlight Spacecraft to a Theoretical Nearby Black Hole?

An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...
Scientific American2y

The First Milky Way Black Hole Image Lets Scientists Test Physics

It wasn’t the first picture of a black hole this collaboration had captured—that was the iconic image of M87*, which they revealed in April 2019. But it was the one they wanted most.
Discover Magazine on MSN13h

Interstellar Mission to a Black Hole Could Be Possible in 20 to 30 Years

Learn more about the discovery of a nearby black hole that we could be exploring in the coming decades.

Jobs freeze at council with £28m budget black hole

Sheffield Council is to freeze recruitment for six months as it grapples with a budget gap of more than £28m. The authority ...
Space.com on MSN1d

'Ice cube' clouds discovered at the galaxy's center shouldn't exist — and they hint at a recent black hole explosion

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold ...