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There Could be Planets Orbiting Around Supermassive Black Holes

Perhaps the greatest discovery to come from the “Golden Age of General Relativity” (ca. 1960 to 1975) was the realization

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Black holes are an important part of how astrophysicists make sense of the universe—so important that scientists have been trying

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Advances in imaging technology are allowing researchers to observe scientific phenomena in exciting new ways, both here on Earth and

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For nearly 5 years, growing numbers of scientists have blamed the weird orbits of distant solar system objects on the

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Astronomers have discovered three giant black holes within a titanic collision of three galaxies. Several observatories, including the Chandra X-ray

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So there you are, about to leap into a black hole. What could possibly await should — against all odds

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Everybody wants a wormhole. I mean, who wants to bother traveling the long-and-slow routes throughout the universe, taking tens of

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Astronomers have detected a gravitational wave signal that appears to have been caused by a black hole swallowing a neutron

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The Hubble Space Telescope is like an old dog that is constantly teaching the astronomical community new tricks. In the

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Scientists have measured the mass of a black hole in a neighboring dwarf galaxy known as NGC 4395, and their

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It is believed that the formation and growth of most galaxies across the history of the universe has been fueled

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You’re looking at the brand-new, first-ever close-up picture of a black hole. This image of the black hole M87 at

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