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What would happen if the Milky Way's black hole erupted? This distant galaxy paints a terrifying picture

The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim prediction of the Milky Way's future.

Space

Black holes may obey the laws of physics after all, new theory suggests

A new recipe for black holes could do away with central singularities, saving the laws of physics from troubling infinities.

Space

Stephen Hawking's black hole theory has big implications for the shape of the universe, new study claims

Elusive black hole radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking may have influenced the way the universe took shape after the Big Bang, new research suggests.

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High-school student accidentally discovers black hole 'light echo' twice as wide as the Milky Way

While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It may be one of the largest ever seen.

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Where immigrants are sent to "disappear"

The Trump administration is using an infamous prison in El Salvador as a legal "black hole"

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Cosmic 'tornadoes' rage around the heart of the Milky Way and its supermassive black hole

Astronomers have discovered filaments of matter swirling tornado-like around the heart of the Milky Way, home to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.

Space

What were Stephen Hawking's greatest contributions to science?

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant advancements in our understanding of black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity.

Space

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Starmer fails to repeat commitment not to extend freeze on income tax

In the autumn budget, Rachel Reeves decided not to extend the freeze on the thresholds at which people start to pay different rates of income tax.

Evening Standard

New Nasa data hints we could be living inside a black hole

Black hole cosmology suggests our entire universe formed inside a black hole from another universe

The Independent UK

As Helldivers 2 players lose Moradesh to the Illuminate black hole, fans discover secret messages that may hint at what's next

The Illuminate's next move in Helldivers 2 may have just been discovered in secret messages found by players.

Windows Central

Groundbreaking theory may transform our understanding of ‘white holes’

Time is traditionally viewed as linear, but researchers say it could be dynamic

The Independent UK

Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind

The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for galaxies supports the idea that the universe was born in a black hole.

Space

Black holes spew out powerful jets that span millions of light-years – we’re trying to understand their whole life cycle

There is a supermassive black hole at the centre of nearly every big galaxy – including ours, the Milky Way (it’s called Sagittarius A*). Supermassive black holes are the densest objects in the universe, with masses reaching billions of times that of the Sun.

The Conversation

Evidence for Stephen Hawking's unproven black hole theory may have just been found — at the bottom of the sea

The recent discovery of a stupendously powerful neutrino has left scientists scratching their heads. New research suggests it could be evidence that Stephen Hawking was right about the nature of black holes and the early universe.

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A monster black hole may be hiding in the galaxy next door: 'It is astounding'

A hidden monster black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud fired runaway stars at the Milky Way at millions of miles per hour.

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Unproven Einstein theory of 'gravitational memory' may be real after all, new study hints

Einstein's theory of general relativity suggests that the "memory" of ancient events, such as black hole mergers, may be etched into the fabric of space-time by gravitational waves. New research shows how this theory of gravitational memory could finally be proven.

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Australians lose more money to gambling in a year than government spends on aged care, report finds

The $31.5bn lost each year likened to a ‘hidden, unspoken black hole’ that cost-of-living policies have not addressed

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'Einstein's equations need to be refined': Tweaks to general relativity could finally explain what lies at the heart of a black hole

Black hole singularities should not exist, according to theories of quantum mechanics. New tweaks to Einstein's equations of general relativity could finally do away with them, and explain what truly lies at the heart of a black hole.

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'Cosmic Horseshoe' may contain black hole the size of 36 billion suns — one of the largest ever detected

The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the light from a galaxy behind it. Now, astronomers know where it gets this mass from.

The Independent UK

Panama and Costa Rica turning into a ' black hole' for migrants, deportees from US, observers warn

Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics of a suddenly reversed migration flow

Space

How do black holes 'leak' energy? Scientists have a new spin on the answer

Scientists have discovered more about the process that causes black holes to "leak" energy to their surroundings, finding the faster they spin, the more energy is extracted.

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Scientists may have just discovered 300 of the rarest black holes in the universe

How black holes grow to monstrous scales is one of astronomy's prevailing enigmas. A new record-breaking dataset, which reveals 300 potential 'missing link black holes', could help to unravel it.

Evening Standard

Susan Hall says she wants to throw Sadiq Khan into a black hole, in row over London's finances

The row began after the mayor sought to blame Boris Johnson for the Met Police’s current funding gap

Space

Black holes snacking on small stars create particle accelerators that bombard Earth with cosmic rays

Gamma rays detected by NASA's Fermi spacecraft indicate that microquasars are powered by small black holes slowly devouring stars. They pack quite a punch, bombarding Earth with cosmic rays.

Space

Largest-ever discovery of 'missing link' black holes revealed by dark energy camera (video)

Using a revolutionary dark energy camera, astronomers have discovered the largest haul of "missing link" intermediate-mass black holes ever seen, but there should have been more.

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