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Jets from powerful black holes can point astronomers toward where to look for life in the universe
One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...
How black holes can lead us to thriving alien worlds
Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...
Ripples from deep space reveal the most massive black hole ever detected
When two enormous black holes collide in deep space, they send shockwaves rippling across the universe. These shockwaves, ...
Jets from powerful black holes can point astronomers toward where − and where not − to look for life in the universe
Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...
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A 'Star Grinder' Swarm of Black Holes Could Lurk in Our Galaxy's Dusty Core
This suggests that O-type stars experience black hole grinding. There are plenty of the smaller B-type stars in the region, ...
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Cosmic Collision: Astronomers spot two monster black holes merge and flying freely through space
Further analysis revealed that the black hole was likely ejected due to a galactic collision. Clues from Telescopes in Chile and Hawaii To understand this event, researchers used the Very Large ...
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Jets from powerful black holes can point astronomers toward where − and where not − to look for life in the universe
When two galaxies collide and merge, gas is funneled into the central region of that merger. Some of that gas ends up getting close to the newly merged black hole and forms the accretion disk.
Scientists Think Radiation from Micro-Black Holes May Have Shaped the Early Universe
Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into being. As Stephen Hawking predicted, black holes don’t only draw particles in, ...