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New Evidence Confirms Hawking’s Theory About Black Holes Defying Gravity

In the world of astrophysics, Stephen Hawking’s predictions about black holes have always sparked fascination and debate.

Supermassive Black Hole Shreds a Huge Star in Record Flare

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

Hawking Was Right: New Data Confirms Black Holes Never Shrink

Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...
Science Daily

A high-altitude telescope just changed what we know about black holes

Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever Seen Was So Rare, It Seemed Impossible. Now, Astrophysicists May Finally Have an Explanation

Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...

Webb witnesses a feasting supermassive black hole in the early universe

Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole ...