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Could the secret to black hole formation be locked away in this record-breaking ancient quasar?

The quasar existed 12.9 billion years ago and shows that supermassive black holes were able to age rapidly in the early universe.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence the mysterious 'little red dots' are black hole stars

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may be close to solving the mystery of "little red dots" in the early universe.

Space

Strange 'spacetime crystals' could give birth to tiny black holes

Using just a pen and paper, a team of scientists has calculated how space and time could crystallize to form tiny black holes.

Space

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These record-breaking black hole winds could create a category 79 hurricane on Earth

Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar powered by a feeding supermassive black hole blasting out winds at record-breaking speeds for such an outflow seen in ultraviolet light, traveling at 30% the speed of light.

Space

Florida’s Plan to Overhaul New College Was Supposed to Be a National Blueprint, but Internal Records Show a Much Darker Result

A movement that claims to champion fiscal responsibility has turned a liberal arts college into a financial black hole.

The Mary Sue

‘We were going off the cliff’: Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil on inventing grunge – and losing Chris Cornell and Kurt Cobain

As he publishes a memoir, the pioneering guitarist talks about rejecting spandex and hair metal, his fears for breakthrough hit Black Hole Sun – and completing nine unfinished Soundgarden songs

The Guardian - UK

James Webb Space Telescope weighs 'sleeping giant' black hole from 10 billion light-years away — and it's 6 billion times our sun's mass

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, and with a little help from Einstein, astronomers have "weighed" a sleeping giant, a dormant supermassive black hole located a staggering 10 billion light-years away.

Space

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'Crystals' of space-time could be the origins of certain rare black holes, theoretical study hints

By taking general relativity into higher dimensions, a trio of physicists has proven that a mathematical pattern of ripples in space-time geometry could give rise to naked singularities and microscopic black holes.

LiveScience

Scientists find wind blowing from our Milky Way's black hole after half-century search: 'There it is'

After searching for 50 years, astronomers have finally discovered powerful winds blowing from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.

Space

Galactic giant awakens: Hidden black hole wind discovered after 50 years

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The Independent UK

Wind from Milky Way’s black hole solves a 50-year-old mystery

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The Independent UK

Scientists just solved a decades-old mystery about the black hole in the middle of our galaxy

They captured an image 100 times deeper and 80 times sharper than previous maps of the region

The Independent UK

James Webb telescope detects most distant dormant black hole, invisible in all wavelengths and weighing as much as 6 billion suns

JWST found a black hole hiding in a galaxy more than 10 billion light-years away from Earth, and used a cosmic magnifying glass to determine its mass.

LiveScience

“I snapped, flipped him off, grabbed my coat, and stormed out of the studio. I told him to ‘get Steve Vai’”: Kim Thayil reveals his battles over Soundgarden’s Superunknown and Black Hole Sun

The Seattle guitar icon recalls the tensions behind the making of Soundgarden’s masterpiece in this exclusive excerpt from his memoir A Screaming Life

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Can black holes turn into white holes? It's not such a crazy idea, scientists say

New research suggests primordial black holes born during the Big Bang could live much longer than previously estimated — long enough to become energy-spewing white holes.

Space

Astronomers discover a 'lost world' of black hole mergers: 'It's the astronomical equivalent of uncovering an ancient civilization'

This could change our understanding of how the cosmic titans collide.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope discovers a black hole that formed before its host galaxy. Scientists aren't sure how

Observations of "Little Red Dot" ancient galaxies by the James Webb Space Telescope could answer the question: which comes first, the black hole or its galaxy? The shocking answer could represent a complete paradigm shift.

Space

Most powerful 'ghost particle' ever may have come from a cosmic particle accelerator fed by a black hole

The most energetic "ghost particle" neutrino ever detected may have been blasted at Earth by blazars, suggesting that these events and their black hole engines are powerful cosmic particle accelerators.

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James Webb telescope discovers 'naked' black hole that somehow formed before its own galaxy

Astronomers weighed a black hole in a "little red dot" discovered by the James Webb telescope. They found it to be so overmassive that it may have formed before its host galaxy had a chance to develop.

Space

The universe's 'most relaxed' galaxy cluster was shaped by cosmic violence, new study finds

What's the truth behind this unusually tranquil city of galaxies?

LiveScience

James Webb telescope zooms in on a black hole that could reveal the truth about 'little red dots'

A peculiar object dubbed an 'X-ray dot' could help solve the mystery of the 'little red dots' discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope.

AAP

A $3.5m doctor's claim at centre of a budget black hole

An ineffective and unchecked payment scheme for doctors who prop up the rural health system has led to a $1.3 billion budget blow out, an audit has found.

Space

How do the biggest black holes in the universe form? Ripples in spacetime provide a clue

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope's strange little red dots may really be 'black hole stars', X-ray data suggests

Finding X-rays coming from one of the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could be the key to answering what these weird objects truly are.

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