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Do black holes hide the secrets of their ancestors?

Some black holes are so massive they were likely created as smaller black holes that merged. Maybe we can use such black hole "children" to learn about the black hole "ancestors."

Space

Scotland’s artists fear ‘cultural black hole’ after festival and film project cancelled

Calls for Scottish government to increase support grow, following funding cuts to public arts body

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Tiny black holes left over from the Big Bang may be prime dark matter suspects

Don't rule out primordial black holes as dark matter suspects just yet! Particle-sized black holes may resist evaporation, surviving long enough to account for the universe's most mysterious stuff.

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Gravitational waves reveal 1st-of-its-kind merger between neutron star and mystery object

The mystery object, which falls right within the mass-gap range, sheds light on a long-sought, murky realm.

Space

From silver bullets to black holes: Where did all the bling go?

All that glitters may not be gold, but silver doesn't half look good on a bike

Cycling Weekly

Cannibal stars at the heart of the Milky Way stay young in a gruesome way

To remain youthful in a cosmic demolition derby around supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, some cannibalistic stars gruesomely bathe in outer layers of their stellar victims.

Space

Some stars may be 'infected' with black holes that destroy them from within, new study hints

Could dark matter be made of mini black holes that formed in the early universe? One way to find out is to look for missing stars, destroyed by primordial black holes, a new study suggests.

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Why are some supermassive black hole jets so short? Astronomers may have cracked the case

New observations provide an intriguing window into what happens when a slumbering black hole awakens to devour a star.

Space

Most quasars are a ferocious force of nature, but not this one

A quasar over three billion light-years away was found to be rather gentle on its host galaxy, allowing its black hole to keep growing.

Space

Milky Way black hole has 'strong, twisted' magnetic field in mesmerizing new image

The polarized light image gives us a "new view of the monster lurking at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the European Southern Observatory.

WEKU

Black hole pic reveals Milky Way enigma

"Like a frenetic toddler," the monster at the heart of our galaxy is wild-whipping magnetic plasma

Salon

How to tell if an essay is written by ChatGPT - Tech & Science Daily podcast

All the stories from Thursday’s episode of the Tech & Science Daily podcast.

Evening Standard

Twisted magnetic field observed around Milky Way's central black hole

Astronomers announced that they have detected a strong and organised magnetic field twisted in a spiral pattern around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, revealing previously unknown qualities of the immensely powerful object lurking at the center of our galaxy

The Hindu

Supermassive black hole’s mysterious hiccups' likely caused by neighboring black hole's 'punches'

A black hole may be punching through the disk of gas and dust surrounding a supermassive black hole, causing its giant neighbor to "hiccup."

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New view of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way hints at an exciting hidden feature (image)

Astronomers have for the first time imaged the powerful magnetic fields that dwell around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*.

LiveScience

Physicists make record-breaking 'quantum vortex' to study the mysteries of black holes

Physicists created a 'quantum vortex,' which flows with 500 times less viscosity than water and could be used to study the space-time warping caused by black holes.

Space

'Quantum tornado' allows scientists to mimic a black hole on Earth

Scientists created a giant vortex made of tiny quantum parts in a helium superfluid just a few degrees above absolute zero. This "quantum tornado" helped them to bring black hole physics down to Earth.

Space

3D map of over 1 million black holes traces where the universe's dark matter lies

Nearly 1.3 million quasars are included in a vast cosmic map, with the most distant having existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.

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Scientists find black hole spaghettifying star remarkably close to Earth

Astronomers have discovered rather close evidence of a star being ripped apart and devoured by a supermassive black hole in a tidal disruption event.

Space

How do some black holes get so big? The James Webb Space Telescope may have an answer

With help from the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have identified a possible lead on how some supermassive black holes get so incredibly big.

Space

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found some of the very 1st stars

The hunt for the first stars, known as Population III stars, may be nearing an end as the James Webb Space Telescope spotted tantalizing evidence for them in one of the earliest galaxies known.

Motorsport

What Verstappen's outlook on racing in F1 says about his next move

With Verstappen caught between ongoing power plays at Red Bull and team principal Christian Horner's now public rift with his father Jos, speculation is rife on whether among the fallout the Dutchman could end up leaving Red Bull before the end of his deal. It isn't clear yet whether the…

Salon

Heaviest black hole pair ever measured

The two supermassive black holes are 28 billion times more massive than the Sun

LiveScience

Astronomers find heaviest black hole pair in the universe, and they've been trapped in an endless duel for 3 billion years

Two supermassive black holes spotted circling inside a remote 'fossil' galaxy are the heaviest, and the closest, black hole binary ever found.

Space

The James Webb Space Telescope's targets over the next year include black holes, exomoons, dark energy — and more

The James Webb Telescope will be busy during Cycle 3 , with astronomers using the powerful telescope to hunt exomoons and supermassive black holes and investigate cosmic evolution.

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