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Supermassive black hole shown firing out mysterious jet in first ever image of phenomenon captured by astronomers | Science & Tech News
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A black hole has been pictured expelling a powerful jet for the first time. The image shows a glowing circle at the centre of a galaxy known as Messier 87 (M87), around 55 million light-years from Earth. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, which is 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometres).…
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Supermassive black hole pictures: Scientists release new sharper images after using technology to fill gaps | World News
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Scientists have released new, clearer images of a supermassive black hole which was first discovered in 2019. The new image retains the distinctive shape that the first image was compared to – one astrophysicist refers to the original as a “fuzzy orange doughnut” – but is far sharper. Four years ago, the global Event…
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‘Runaway’ black hole tearing through universe creates ‘astonishing’ trail of stars, say NASA | Science & Tech News
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A runaway black hole is tearing through the universe, leaving a trail of stars in its wake that’s never been seen before, NASA says. The supermassive black hole weighs as much as 20 million suns – and it’s travelling so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to…
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Earth’s ‘black hole police’ discover gravitational singularity near Milky Way | Science & Tech News
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An international team of astronomers known as the “black hole police” have discovered a dormant black hole located right next to the Milky Way. The team, including Kareem El-Badry of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics – himself nicknamed the “black hole destroyer” – is famed throughout the astronomy community for debunking new discoveries of gravitational…