Posts by tag: "Black holes"

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A newly discovered black hole with a mass of 17 billion suns, absorbing another one every day. Its disk, 7 light-years in diameter.

The sun has a mass of about 330,000 times larger than the mass of the Earth, but this figure is overshadowed by black holes in the centers of galaxies. A team of astronomers recently discovered the fastest-growing: a black hole with a mass of 17 bill...

A newly discovered black hole with a mass of 17 billion suns, absorbing another one every day. Its disk, 7 light-years in diameter.

The sun has a mass approximately 330,000 times greater than that of the Earth, but this figure is overshadowed by black holes at the centers of galaxies. A team of astronomers recently discovered the fastest-growing one: a black hole with a mass of 1...

A black hole from our galaxy is spinning so fast that it warps space-time into a "soccer ball"

An enormous monster lurks at the center of the Milky Way, and now astronomers have discovered that it spins so fast that it turns spacetime itself into the shape of a football. According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, mass warps spaceti...