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5 space discoveries that scientists are struggling to explain

From "runaway" black holes shooting across the cosmos to secret planets in our own backyard, space is overrun with mysterious objects that scientists are clamoring to explain. Here are five of the strangest sights in the universe, as well as their possible origins.

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8 strange objects that could be hiding in the outer solar system

The outer solar system is a vast and mysterious place that could be harboring hidden objects we know almost nothing about — from the elusive Planet Nine and baby black holes to interstellar visitors and "planet killer" asteroids.

LiveScience

NASA telescope spots 'cosmic fireworks' and faint echos from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole

NASA's NuSTAR telescope found evidence of cosmic fireworks and X-ray echoes coming from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.

Space

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Hubble Telescope maps high-speed 'burps' from nearby feeding supermassive black hole for 1st time

Hubble has mapped the outflow "burps" of a nearby feeding supermassive black hole-powered quasar for the first time, measuring speeds of 6.5 million mph, around 8,500 times the speed of sound.

Space

“The supermassive black hole renders our experience terminally irrelevant… we need to be more light-hearted about stuff”: Prog’s Best New Band EBB are guided by the galaxy

Reader award winners explain the motivation for latest release The Management Of Consequences, and their ambitions for expanding their already impressive live show

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'Supercharged rhino' black holes may have formed and died a second after the Big Bang

Tiny 'supercharged' black holes born just after the Big Bang may have been brief companions to primordial black holes, dying before the universe was a second old.

Space

Black hole 'morsels' could finally prove Stephen Hawking's famous theory right

Stephen Hawking suggested nothing lasts forever, including black holes. Scientists may have a way to prove it at last.

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Treasury rubbishes Rishi Sunak’s £2,000 tax hike election TV debate claim

In a humiliating moment in the election for the prime minister, a scathing letter from top Treasury officials revealed that the figures relied on by Mr Sunak were nothing to do with the civil service

The Independent UK

'Helldivers 2' Just Spawned A Black Hole, and Players Already Have Wild Theories About It

The valiant 'Helldivers 2' community spent the weekend snuffing out the supercolony of Terminids that overtook the remote planet of Meridia. The victory has been immortalized with the creation of a Black Hole in distant space, an anomaly that is most definitely a good thing for the continued fight for…

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Helldivers 2 leaders respond to the black hole, insist it's "a symbol of justice on a galactic scale," announce more Termicide on the way because nothing bad happened last time

Termicide 2.0? Sure

GamesRadar

Helldivers 2 players save democracy by turning a planet into an ominous black hole that makes whale noises: Which is fine and normal and not a wormhole to the Illuminate, stop asking

We did it, Patrick! We saved Liberty!

PC Gamer

Helldivers 2 players clear their latest Major Order in style, collapsing an entire planet into a newly formed black hole that definitely isn't going to become a problem sometime soon

Meridia has been successfully spaghettified

GamesRadar

Could these black hole 'morsels' finally prove Stephen Hawking's famous theory?

Stephen Hawking suggested black holes "leak " and evaporate away — scientists could use "morsels" launched from catastrophic black hole collisions to prove it.

Space

Elusive medium-size black holes may form in dense 'birthing nests'

A new simulation has shown elusive intermediate-mass black holes may form in dense globular clusters of millions of tightly packed stars, thanks to a chaotic collision chain.

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Scientists may have finally solved the problem of the universe’s 'missing' black holes

Primordial black holes are one of the strongest candidates for the universe's missing dark matter. But a new theory suggests that not enough of the miniature black holes formed for this to be the case.

Space

If the Big Bang created miniature black holes, where are they?

Primordial black holes born from density fluctuations dating back to the Big Bang have been frustratingly elusive, but a new quantum clue has been discovered.

LiveScience

'Vanishing' stars may be turning into black holes without going supernova, new study hints

Stars that vanish from the sky may be collapsing directly into black holes without going supernova first, a new study of a bizarre binary star system suggests.

The Conversation

I’m an astrophysicist mapping the universe with data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory − clear, sharp photos help me study energetic black holes

When a star is born or dies, or when any other very energetic phenomenon occurs in the universe, it emits X-rays, which are high-energy light particles that aren’t visible to the naked eye. These X-rays are the same kind that doctors use to take pictures of broken bones inside the…

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NASA spots 16 'Death Star' black holes blasting powerful beams at multiple targets

Researchers using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope have found that a group of "Death Star black holes are swiveling around and pointing at new targets, like the fictional space station in Star Wars."

Space

Are stars vanishing into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says 'yes'

An unusual binary system could be evidence that some massive stars can die quietly, without a supernova explosion.

LiveScience

Black hole spin speed revealed in new study of churning space-time

Scientists have calculated the speed of a spinning supermassive black hole by studying the 'spaghettified' remains of a star it destroyed.

Space

'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan! (video)

Supermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation in their galaxies are shifting targets like real-life Death Stars.

Space

Scientists find weird link between a solar mystery and feeding black holes

The solar dynamo that drives sunspots and solar flares could be located near the surface of the sun scientists find, solving a 400-year-old solar mystery and providing a weird link to black holes.

Inverse

Mind-Bending! Astronomers Capture Just How Fast A Supermassive Black Hole Spins

A new study offers a fascinating new method to measure the spin speed of a black hole. This ability could help astronomers flesh out how our universe came to look as it does today.

Space

Churning spacetime and destroyed stars help reveal how fast supermassive black holes spin

Black holes are such a drag! Especially for the guts of stars they've destroyed and the fabric of spacetime they pull along with them.

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