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Search results for: black hole jet

An artist’s illustration of the black hole Cygnus X-1. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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Black holes, explained by an astrophysicist

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From super to ultra: Just how big can black holes get?

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How do black holes swallow stars?

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How black holes grow

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Astronomers time accelerating particles around black holes

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‘Fuzzballs’ might be the answer to a decades-old paradox about black holes

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Newly merged black hole eagerly shreds stars

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ALMA probes mysteries of jets from giant black holes

A James Webb Space Telescope image of a dense galaxy cluster filled with hundreds of galaxies of varying shapes, sizes, and colors against a black background. Three small white squares labeled A, B, and C mark gravitationally lensed images of a background quasar near the cluster center. At right, three zoomed-in inset panels labeled QSO1A, QSO1B, and QSO1C show each lensed quasar image as a small red point source.
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Did this black hole grow up before its galaxy?

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Could a human enter a black hole to study it?

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NGC 4395’s pint-size black hole

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Chandra finds nearest pair of supermassive black holes

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