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Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black Hole
...the black hole’s flickering, that motion would be linear, as blobs traveled outward and cooled, Eisenhauer said. If clumps in the disk around the black hole were responsible, the motion...
Earliest Black Hole Gives Rare Glimpse of Ancient Universe
...fog and figurative mystery. They want to know what burned the fog away: stars, supermassive black holes, or both in tandem? And how did those behemoth black holes grow so...
Black Hole Echoes Would Reveal Break With Einstein’s Theory
...center. Yet the center of a black hole is, famously, a place where we can never look. It’s protected by the black hole’s horizon — the surface surrounding the black...
To Test Einstein’s Equations, Poke a Black Hole
...rotating black holes are stable. But their work did not cover black holes rotating above a certain threshold. Their proof also makes some assumptions about the nature of space-time. The...
Why Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Puzzle Keeps Puzzling
...that black holes are not truly black. Quantum uncertainty causes them to radiate a small amount of heat, dubbed “Hawking radiation.” They lose mass in the process and ultimately evaporate...
Plunge Into a (Virtual Reality) Black Hole
...with curves in the space-time fabric, space-time ceases to curve smoothly inside black holes, or even to make sense. Knowing what happens inside black holes would reveal the unknown, quantum...
Math Proof Draws New Boundaries Around Black Hole Formation
...Irvine — have released a new paper that brings us closer to determining the presence of black holes based solely on the concentration of matter. In addition, their paper proves...
Black Hole Image Reveals the Beast Inside the Milky Way’s Heart
...a key aspect of black holes. No matter their size, or the environment they live in, once you arrive at the edge of a black hole, gravity takes over.” In...
Can Analogies Reveal the Laws of Physics?
Hoping to gain insight into domains of nature that lie beyond experimental reach — the interiors of black holes, the subtleties of the quantum realm, the Big Bang — physicists...