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Black holes follow the no hair theorem

Black holes with magnetic field ‘hair’ shed it in loops of hot plasma

2 August 2021

When black holes are born with magnetic fields, simulations show they shed those fields quickly, in accordance with the predictions of the no-hair theorem
Black hole

X-rays can echo and bend around the back of supermassive black holes

28 July 2021

Flashes of X-rays have been spotted echoing from behind a supermassive black hole, confirming one of the predictions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity

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