Event Horizon Telescope captures magnetic turbulence flickering at the edge of black hole M87*

For a few brief nights each year, you get a rare chance to watch a monster blink. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration ...

First-ever black hole image sharpened using machine learning

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...
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Something Far Darker Than a Black Hole Could Hide in The Heart of The Milky Way

There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a supermassive black hole is the only possible explanation. All measurements taken of ...
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NASA X-ray spacecraft stares into the 'eye of the storm' swirling around supermassive black holes

The NASA/JAXA X-ray spacecraft has allowed astronomers to dive into the metaphorical "eye of the storm" swirling around ...
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Is the Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy Actually a Massive Knot of Dark Matter? Sounds Crazy, But the Numbers Line Up

Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...

The Center of Our Galaxy May Not Be a Black Hole

What if the Milky Way’s central “black hole” isn’t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.
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The Object at the Core of the Milky Way Might Not Be a Black Hole at All, Scientists Say

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