amazing black hole articles 2019

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  In his first PopSci appearance, a young Stephen Hawking explains an incredible discovery

  In the December 1980 issue of Popular Science, a 38-year-old theoretical physicist answers the ultimate question about the universe.

  ... fascinate me," Schmidt declares. "It's amazing that the universe manages to ... candidate: the black hole. Many are now convinced that a black hole lurks deep ...

  By Peter Gwynne
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  Space Shots: The Universe's Best Images

  A gallery of photos, visualizations, and other pictures of outer space.

  ... scientific visualizations, and of course, amazing astronomy images.X-ray observations have shown ... show, generated by the massive black hole at the center of the ...

  By Popular Science Staff
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  Celebrate Hubble's 25th Birthday With 26 Of Its Most Gorgeous Images

  A Gallery Of Photos Curated By The Person Who Made Most Of Them

  Twenty-five years ago today, Hubble launched into space, nestled in the bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Over those years, the space telescope produced the most inspiring images of the cosmos we humans had ever seen. ...

  By Katie Peek
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  Cassini just smashed into Saturn's atmosphere. What comes next for solar system exploration?

  Europa, the outer solar system, and a lot of questions.

  ... our loss, and celebrate the amazing additions Cassini has made to ... explore Mercury's exosphere. January 1, 2019 New Horizons zooms by 2014 ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  The 12 craziest Hubble pictures of all time

  Otherworldly desktop backgrounds.

  ... at some of the most amazing pictures it's given us over ... actual picture of a supermassive black hole (yet), this image possibly captures ...

  By Josh Hrala
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  NASA Needs To Harness The Genius Of Crowds

  What we learned at a space conference that puts inclusivity first

  ... saw Mae Jemison, the first black female astronaut [in a documentary ... because I know there are amazing people doing orbital debris, planetary ...
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  This weekend's Blue Moon isn't the kind of Blue Moon you're used to (and also isn't blue)

  What is going on with my moon?

  ... these moons. “Catch This Weekend's AMAZING SUPERMOON,” one headline (or, like ... and last full supermoon of 2019, which didn't necessarily mean it ...

  By Rachel Feltman
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  Blame loose screws and 'excessive optimism' for the latest delay of NASA's new space telescope

  James Webb is now slated for a 2021 launch—only a bajillion years late.

  ... proposal to Congress in early 2019. When NASA announced the last ... Telescope. It's going to do amazing things—things we've never been ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Plans to build a massive telescope on sacred Hawaiian land have sparked protests—and arrests

  Breaking down the Mauna Kea controversy.

  ... an essential site,” astronomer and black hole expert Meg Urry of Yale ...

  By Kat Eschner
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  This 'Hole' On The Surface Of The Sun Looks Amazing

  But what caused it?

  ... fastest solar winds. A coronal hole can't be seen in visible ... sure how they form. Coronal holes aren't particularly rare, but they ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  How Lockheed Martin Plans To Set Up A Base Camp In Mars' Orbit

  The journey to Mars, told in GIFs

  ... and then, some day, Mars. 2019: Safety CheckDuring liftoff, a crew ... location for studying the stars, black holes, and more. This practice session ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  Two astronauts just survived a 'ballistic descent' in a Russian rocket. Here's everything we know.

  American Nick Hague and Russian Alexey Ovchinin endured a rough emergency landing.

  ... to talk about the mysterious hole recently found in a Soyuz ... and March and September of 2019. NASA will not begin running ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  space

  Does a black hole ever die?

  What we know about the mysterious life cycle of a black hole.

  ... black holes, where by all accounts there should be intermediate black holes—medium-sized, Goldilocks-approved black holes ... focused on supermassive black hole mergers instead of stellar mass black hole mergers. “I'm ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  The sad reason part of the Mars Rover's last image is black and white

  The rover took the shot, but never had the chance to send it back to earth.

  ... tenure, it sent back some amazing images of Mars that provided ... to as Pancam only take black and white images. A pair ...

  By Stan Horaczek
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  Supermassive Black Hole Found Farting A Trillion Suns' Worth Of Energy

  Scientists zero in on the size, shape, and speed of the gas that reconfigures galaxies

  ... of the black hole, it blocks the radiation from the black hole, so we ... winds greatly affect the supermassive black hole's surrounding galaxy, notably by regulating ...

  By Loren Grush
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  A Simple Way To Retrieve Info You Lost In A Black Hole

  Just an easy quantum procedure

  ... black holes. Although nothing can escape a black hole, that does not prevent a black hole ... whatever you tossed into the black hole.” The black hole is constantly generating Hawking ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  space

  Stephen Hawking Aims To 'Get Under The Hood' Of A Black Hole Paradox

  Holograms? Alternate universes? Here's what the famous physicist's announcement really means

  ... them. If information doesn't leave black holes, it means there's something seriously ... sitting outside an ordinary, garden-variety black hole and you drop something in... ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  This Is Probably What A Black Hole Shredding A Star Looks Like

  Scientists at NASA used x-ray 'echoes' to look inside a black hole

  ... by a black hole. Flares of x-rays from near the black hole act almost ... out what's happening near the black hole, just like researchers on Earth ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Scientist Thinks He's Proven Hawking's Theory That Black Holes Glow

  Hawking radiation observed in a homemade black hole analogue

  ... This is like a black hole, except with space black holes, its light particles ... antiparticles and disappear. In real black holes, Stephen Hawking predicted that these ...

  By Ryan F. Mandelbaum
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  Could A Black Hole Be Blocking The Light From That 'Alien Megastructure' Star?

  The top 7 explanations for the star's weird behavior, ranked roughly in order of plausibility

  ... far." An interstellar black hole disk? Maybe! Although a black hole is definitely not ... disk of material orbiting a black hole is one possible explanation. (Debris ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  This star is orbiting insanely close to a black hole

  But they get along just fine

  ... scientists understand the evolution of black holes, stars, and globular clusters. In ... from the black hole. Their collision could have allowed the black hole to strip ...

  By Rachel Feltman
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  LIGO spots its third black hole merger

  The observatory could eventually detect a new collision every day.

  ... of gravitational waves, directly observed black holes for the first time, and ... the spins are non-aligned." The black holes' spin patterns add another puzzle ...

  By Sophie Bushwick
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  space

  Strange signals were just spotted coming from a distant galaxy

  But it's not aliens.

  ... things we know about are black holes and neutron stars; they also ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Astronomers just discovered a supermassive black hole from the dawn of the universe

  And it's much bigger than we expected.

  ... , reported the existence of the black hole and its accompanying bright quasar ... , not even light. Near large black holes, surrounding material swirls around to ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs