Black holes are often considered terrors of the known universe. Supermassive black holes are regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light doesn't have enough energy to ...
A supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust as seen in infrared light (top left), visible light (top right), and low- and high-energy X-rays (bottom left, right). Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...
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What happens to matter when it gets sucked into a black hole?
Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...
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Big Black Holes In Dwarf Galaxies
For the first time, NASA Chandra X-ray telescope has been used to discover a pair of black holes in dwarf galaxies that are ...
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How Big Are Supermassive Black Holes?
NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...
Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic ...
WR 124, a rare type of Wolf-Rayet star. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: (Herschel) ESA/NASA/Caltech, (Spitzer) NASA/JPL/Caltech, (WISE) NASA/JPL/Caltech; Infrared ...
A monstrous black hole in a distant galaxy has earned itself a nickname worthy of a science-fiction horror movie for its gluttonous feasting on any stars that dare get near. Meet "Space Jaws." NASA ...
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