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Most newborn black holes spew gas so hard they almost stop spinning

When black holes are born from collapsing stars, they emit a short-lived jet that may slow down the black hole’s rotation to nearly a standstill

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A new image of a supermassive black hole has revealed more of the disc of matter falling into it and the powerful winds created by that process. The black hole in question is called M87*, and it was the subject of the first direct image of a black hole ? this new data will help researchers complete the picture.

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Detailed image of supermassive black hole shows its powerful jet

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How to understand wormholes and their weird quantum effects

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The giant El Gordo galaxy cluster

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JWST spots smallest galaxy outside our local universe

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Artwork of the young Earth-Moon system. The Earth had recently formed when it was struck by a protoplanet called Theia roughly three times the size of Mars. Debris from the impact went into orbit, while the cores of the two planets merged. Within weeks of the event, the debris formed a Saturn-like ring around the Earth. Later collisions in this ring led to the formation of the Moon, probably within just a few thousand years. Initially the Earth and Moon were much closer together than they are now, and spinning more quickly.

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Moon mystery could be solved by simulation of planetary smash-up

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Figure 4. Pseudo-color images of all Cepheid-bearing galaxies analyzed in this work.

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It’s official – we don’t know how fast the universe is expanding

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Newborn stars, hidden behind thick dust, are revealed in this image of a section of the so-called Christmas Tree Cluster from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The newly revealed infant stars appear as pink and red specks toward the center and appear to have formed in regularly spaced intervals along linear structures in a configuration that resembles the spokes of a wheel or the pattern of a snowflake. Hence, astronomers have nicknamed this the

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Sun-like stars may go through brighter phases as they grow up

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WHY is there something rather than nothing?

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Why is there something not nothing? The big bang isn’t the only answer

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Lunar craters could reveal past collisions with ancient black holes

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Lunar craters could reveal past collisions with ancient black holes

Black holes born in the big bang could be the dark matter physicists have sought for decades – if they exist. Now there's an audacious plan to find the scars they would have left as they punched through the moon

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The black hole paradox that thwarts our understanding of reality

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Why there are still huge mysteries in supernova physics

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Why the universe can be described by the equations of fluids

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Black holes leak energy when they eat plasma near the event horizon

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