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These 2 monster black holes may be the closest pair ever discovered in visible and X-ray light (video)
The tag team of NASA space telescopes Hubble and Chandra has demonstrated that two is definitely better than one when it comes to pairings of supermassive black holes and hunting for them.
The 1st Milky Way black hole image was groundbreaking — the next could be even better
By demonstrating the ability for joint observations at the short radio wavelength of 0.87mm, the Event Horizon Telescope has improved its observational acuity by half.
Scientists make lab-grown black hole jets
By using protons to probe how a magnetic field responds to an expanding plasma, experimenters have replicated the particle jets spewed out by active black holes.
Some black holes have a 'heartbeat' — and astronomers may finally know why
A tiny fraction of known black holes emit X-ray signals that resemble a human "heartbeat." Now, new research may finally explain the strange phenomenon.
Supermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns – but their growth has slowed as the universe aged
What happens if you throw a star at a black hole? Things get messy (video)
Supermassive black holes that shred and devour stars throw them up like a "bad curry" and cover themselves in the wreckage, sick new simulations reveal.
How do supermassive black holes 'starve' their galaxies to halt star formation?
The "deaths" of galaxies are caused by their central supermassive black holes, and the "smoking gun" evidence of this connection takes an unexpected form.
Astronomers find black hole's favorite snack: 'The star appears to be living to die another day'
Astronomers have pinned down a faraway black hole's snack schedule after watching it devour a star across years.
