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Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .
The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...
If its mass collapses into an infinitely small point, a black hole is born. Packing all of that bulk—many times the mass of our own sun—into such a tiny point gives black holes their powerful ...
According to astrophysicists Charles Keeton and Arlie Petters, black holes aren't always huge, distant monsters-some might be as small as atoms and could be lurking closer than you think.
With monster ultramassive black holes like Phoenix A and Ton 618 out there, you might well wonder if there is a limit to just how big a black hole can get. You may like Tiny ‘primordial’ black ...
Small pairs of binary black holes could be used to play hide-and-seek' with elusive supermassive black hole binaries via gravitational waves carry the "baritone singing" of these cosmic titans.
Unfortunately, you'd probably have to cross the event horizon to get into the loop. (Supplied: ESA/Hubble, ESO, M. Kornmesser)The catch. So, you've found a black hole and you want to use your ...