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Paperclip-Sized Probe Could Take Us to the Edge of a Black Hole’s Event Horizon

In a paper published in the journal iScience, Bambi lays out a plan to turn such a deep-space mission into reality. If ...

'Pop III.1' model explains origins of black holes and early cosmic ionization

A new theoretical study by University of Virginia astrophysicist Jonathan Tan, a research professor with the College and ...
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Paperclip-sized spacecraft could visit a nearby black hole in the next century, study claims

If we do find a black hole that's close enough, the next challenge is getting there. For that, Bambi proposes the development ...
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This is how supermassive black holes might have formed

A new theoretical study by University of Virginia's Jonathan Tan proposes a framework for the birth of supermassive black ...
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This tiny spacecraft could race to a black hole and rewrite physics

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...
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Research team identifies oldest known supermassive black hole

A research team at the University of Texas at Austin's Cosmic Frontier Center have identified the oldest known supermassive black hole.

Heaviest Black Hole Ever Found Pushes Limit of What’s Cosmologically Possible

Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it ...
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Scientists Discover What Appears to Be the Largest Black Hole in the Universe, So Heavy That It Completely Bends the Light Around It Into a Giant Ring

Astronomers have discovered what could be the largest black hole ever detected. With a mass of 36 billion times that of our ...