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"We'll have to rewrite our interpretation of these flares and what they can teach us about the monsters lying in the centers ...
“A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black ...
A star managed to escape a supermassive black hole's grasp, only to return for a second encounter, challenging our understanding of tidal disruption events.
The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...
When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH), the star’s fate is sealed. The SMBH’s gravity is overwhelming, and as the star is drawn toward the hole, it is stretched out and ...