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Mysterious X-ray signal from deep space may be the scream of a star ripped apart by two black holes

A strange X-ray signal spotted decades ago may be the result of a star that got attacked by two black holes, one after the ...

Einstein's theory comes wrapped up with a bow: Astronomers spot star 'wobbling' around black hole

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...
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Cosmic proof: Black hole wobble backs a century-old Einstein theory on spacetime

Scientists detect a 20-day wobble from a star-shredding black hole, confirming spacetime twisting predicted by Einstein.

New Theory Suggests We’ve Been Wrong About Black Holes for 60 Years

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

Black hole eats star: Student helps chart gamma-ray burst that lasted for days

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...
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Spacetime Vortices Spotted For The First Time As Black Hole Kills A Star

Black holes are notoriously difficult to spot unless they are active, and one type of activity is the destruction of a star, ...

Gravitational Waves Expose Hidden Dark Matter Around Black Holes

Researchers have created a fully relativistic model showing that gravitational waves might carry hidden clues about dark ...
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What would happen if we destroy a black hole?

A black hole is coming straight for Earth. We could wait for it to gobble us up, but instead we're going to try to destroy it ...