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Hill-favored projects called defense budget’s ‘black hole’

WASHINGTON -- Congress directed the Pentagon to spend $12.2 billion in the current fiscal year on nearly 1,000 different “program increases” in the Defense spending bill’s research account alone, projects pushed by lawmakers that the Defense Department did not publicly request, according to a previously unpublicized database.

Tribune News Service

Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rare black hole lurking in our cosmic backyard (video)

Data from the Hubble Space Telescope about the nearby M4 globular cluster suggests a rare midsize black hole may be lurking at its center.

Space

Hubble May Have Finally Found a Black Hole "Missing Link"

Hubble astronomers claim to have found a nearby intermediate-mass black hole, an elusive kind of object yet-to-be confirmed.

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Strange star system may hold first evidence of an ultra-rare 'dark matter star'

In a distant star system, a sunlike star orbits an invisible object that may be the first example of a 'boson star' made of dark matter, new research suggests.

LiveScience

Edinburgh scientists discover massive star-studded galaxy with a 'big surprise'

A team of experts from the University of Edinburgh discovered a 'massive and densely packed' galaxy, which sits 25 million light years away from earth - and were surprised to find a 'massive black hole'.

Edinburgh Live

Hill-favored projects called defense budget's 'black hole' - Roll Call

Member-driven increases to research projects within the Pentagon's budget have surged, with little scrutiny.

Roll Call

Union members 'unanimously support' no confidence vote in Perth College management after redundancies announcement

A total of 50 jobs will go at the college as a result of a £3 million funding black hole - with more potentially to follow

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Some black holes may actually be tangles in the fabric of space-time, new research suggests

A new paper discusses how light interacts with theoretical objects called "topological solitons" — kinks in the fabric of space-time that look just like black holes.

Space

Scientists just grew a black hole disk in a lab to better understand how they feed

Scientists have created a rotating disk of plasma in the lab that mimics the accretion disks that surround black holes, gradually feeding them and facilitating their growth.

Space

Beam of light from star 9.6billion miles away spotted by astronomers

The light is 100,000 billion times brighter than the sun

Wales Online

100 black hole jets aimed at Earth unleash controversial physics theory

A flavor of black hole known as a blazar often exhibits behavior that defies explanation. A new study of 106 supermassive black holes may shed some light.

Space

Scientists grow swirling 'black hole rings' in the lab for the 1st time

Scientists smashed plasma jets together to create artificial accretion disks that could help reveal how black holes grow.

LiveScience

What happened to the missing stars at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy?

The stellar companions of more than a dozen stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy have gone missing — and astronomers want to know why.

Space

Some black holes may actually be tangles in the fabric of space-time, new research suggests

A new paper discusses how light interacts with theoretical objects called "topological solitons" — kinks in the fabric of space-time that look just like black holes.

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Violent origins of gravitational waves probed by new telescope array

The new BlackGEM array will hunt for black hole mergers and neutron star collisions, cataclysmic events that generate ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves.

Space

The most powerful black holes in the universe may finally have an explanation

Quasars, the most extreme phenomena in the universe, are triggered when galactic collisions deliver gas to feeding black holes, new research suggests.

Inverse

Astronomers Discover the Dark Source of the Brightest Cosmic Blast Ever

AT2021lwx is outshining and outlasting supernovas by a big margin.

Evening Standard

Astronomers spot the largest cosmic explosion ever seen

The explosion is more than 10 times brighter than any known supernova, research suggested

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Daily Mirror

Astronomers spot incredible cosmic explosion that is largest and brightest ever seen

Scientists led by the University of Southampton have spotted explosion AT2021lwx, which occurred nearly eight billion light years away

Space

Boom! Astronomers just watched the largest explosion in space rage for 3 years

The largest cosmic explosion ever seen by astronomers has been raging for three years and is ten times more powerful than a supernova. It may be driven by a black hole ripping apart a gas cloud.

LiveScience

A messy black hole may have just triggered the largest explosion in the universe

Astronomers have spotted a giant explosion releasing over 100 times more energy than the sun will release across its entire lifetime. A monster black hole is likely to blame.

The Guardian - UK

Astronomers capture largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed

Fireball ‘100 times the size of the solar system’ thought to have been caused by gas being sucked into supermassive black hole

LiveScience

'Runaway black hole,' or sneaky galaxy in disguise? Experts are conflicted.

A rogue black hole may not be to blame for a mysterious streak of stars coursing through space, a new study suggests.

Space

Black hole shreds star in a cosmic feeding frenzy that has astronomers thrilled

Astronomers have for the first time spotted streams of stellar material circling a black hole and colliding with themselves, shedding light on how accretion disks take shape.

Inverse

Scientists Spy a Supermassive Black Hole Adorned With the Shredded Remains of a Star

The star had an unfortunate encounter with the engine at the center of a distant galaxy, resulting in a tidal disruption event.

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