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Why Did Betelgeuse Dim?

Ravinder Banyal 09/04/2020

Recently, Betelgeuse's brightness began to dim in unprecedented ways,...

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A Surprisingly Big Black Hole Might Have Swallowed a Star From the Inside Out

Roberto Soria 01/12/2019

Astronomers using a new technique to hunt black holes...

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Astronomers Excited Over Prospect of Black Hole Feasting on a Neutron Star

Prakash Chandra 24/08/2019

Having confirmed the gravitational signature of such a cataclysmic...

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How Astronomers Use Ginormous Natural Lenses to Study Distant Space Explosions

Suhail Dhawan 10/08/2019

Light bends around massive objects in space, so astronomers...

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Can Earth Be Affected by a Black Hole in the Future?

Janie Hoormann 02/08/2019

Black holes create the strongest gravitational pull in the...

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Katie Bouman Helped Create the Black Hole Image. You Know What Followed.

The Wire Staff 15/04/2019

Women at the forefront of scientific achievements continue to...

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First Light From the M87 Black Hole: What Are We Looking At?

Joseph Samuel 15/04/2019

How does a picture of a luminous ring around...