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Are planet-killing black holes hiding inside your cat?
"We have to think outside of the box because what has been done to find primordial black holes previously hasn't worked." ...
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Evidence of primordial black holes may be right here on Earth
Primordial black holes are enigmatic remnants from the universe's infancy that hold the key to unlocking some of the biggest ...
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Surprise Anomaly In Gravitational Wave Background Hints At Supermassive Black Hole Collision
The idea was that the gravitational wave background is uniform; there are supermassive black holes merging in so many ...
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More Than 100 Black Holes Are Hiding Within This Large Cluster Of Stars Located 80,000 Light-Years Away
A cross the sky, more than 100 stellar-mass black holes are hidden within a large cluster of stars. The star cluster is named Palomar 5, and it stretches out over 30,000 light-years. It is located ...
Evidence of primordial black holes may be hiding in planets, or even everyday objects here on Earth
A theoretical study suggests that small black holes born in the early universe may have left behind hollow planetoids and microscopic tunnels, and that we should start looking within rocks and old ...
Extending classical black hole inequalities into the quantum realm
A recent study in Physical Review Letters explores quantum effects on black hole thermodynamics and geometry, focusing on ...
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Astronomers spot a mysterious black hole nestled in a cluster of stars
But researchers can look to see if the gravity of a black hole is affecting nearby objects, including stars. And the researchers knew that the stars in this particular cluster were being ...
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Astronomers thought it was one massive black hole — but it's actually cluster of smaller black holes with a whole lot of energy
instead of one massive black hole, lurking at the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6397. Globular clusters are extremely dense stellar systems, which host stars that are closely packed together.
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Closest Black Hole To Earth Discovered? NASA’s Hubble Makes Surprising Find
Hubble detected the black hole by observing the motion of stars near the cluster's centre, which suggested a massive, unseen object was pulling on them. The stars' motions revealed a consistent ...
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Telescopes detect 'biggest explosion since Big Bang'
Black holes are famous for gorging on infalling matter ... this bubble in the hot X-ray plasma in the centre of this galaxy cluster, and they said, 'Well, this can't be from one of these energetic ...
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Black Holes
The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end Shi En Kim The black hole, if confirmed, is in the star cluster ...
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Einstein theory passes black hole test
By observing a cluster of stars near the hole ... The result will help scientists better understand the physics of black holes. The Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile found evidence for ...