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ExplorersWeb on MSNFound: The Oldest Black Hole in the Universe
Nestled within a tiny red galaxy, it dates back 13 billion years -- just 500 million years before the Big Bang -- and shows ...
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Space.com on MSNMeet 'lite intermediate black holes,' the supermassive black hole's smaller, much more mysterious cousin
We call black holes in this gap lite intermediate mass black holes or lite IMBHs, because they are the least massive black ...
Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: ...
Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...
A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...
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Space on MSNMost Distant Black Hole Yet Observed By NASA Telescopes
Data from Chandra X-ray telescope and James Webb Space Telescopes have revealed a black hole from 470 million years after the ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNCould We Send a Superlight Spacecraft to a Theoretical Nearby Black Hole?
An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...
For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 ...
The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.
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Space.com on MSNScientists find oldest-known black hole in the universe: 'This is about as far back as you can practically go'
A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed ...
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ZME Science on MSNScientists Have a Plan to Launch a Chip-Sized, Laser-Powered Spacecraft Toward a Nearby Black Hole and Wait 100 Years for It to Send a Signal Home
The author, astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University, places the idea “somewhere between hard engineering and science ...
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ExtremeTech on MSNEvaporating Black Hole 'Morsels' Could Reveal the Nature of Spacetime
They wouldn’t last for long, but the emissions from tiny black hole buds could light the way to quantum gravity.
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