Black holes

Black holes

Black holes form when a body in the Universe has gravity so strong that it pulls in everything around it, even light, which is why a black hole appears black. They can range in size, from the size of an atom to supermassive black hole like the one at the centre of our Milky Way, which has the mass of 4 million suns and is the size of a few million Earths. This means the one thing black holes all have in common is that they are very, very dense.

Here's what's (probably) on the other side of a black hole

A new theory about what happens when black holes die could solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics.
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What happens to time at the event horizon of a black hole?

You still won't want to fall into one.
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Largest ever black hole jet pair discovered in the distant Universe

The finding may help to shed light on the formation of early galaxies.
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Could we be living in a black hole?

Here's one to get your head spinning.
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Could a black hole ever die?

Looks like they're not going anywhere anytime soon...
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The mysterious black hole ‘parsec problem’ may have finally been solved

A new study has discovered how some of the smallest objects in the Universe interact with the biggest – a breakthrough that could shed fresh light on dark matter.
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What are odd radio circles?

They could be the throats of wormholes.
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How many black holes are there in the Milky Way?

Let’s hope for all our sakes we don’t stumble across any…
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Stunning new image of black hole at centre of our galaxy revealed

The groundbreaking image shows a strong magnetic field spiralling at the edge of Sagittarius A*.
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Black hole unbalances entire galaxy with massive tantrum

The XMM-Newton space observatory has spotted a black hole going full toddler.
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Why we don’t have to worry about being sucked into the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way

Black holes may be notorious for sucking up anything that gets in their way, but we have nothing to worry about from the one in our galaxy’s heart. At least not for another four billion years.
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What is on the other side of a black hole?

Not even light can escape a black hole.
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Treasure trove of black holes found ‘hiding in plain sight’ amongst dwarf galaxies

The discovery may help to shed light on the life story of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.
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What you need to know about the Sagittarius A* black hole photo

The Event Horizon Telescope is back with another stunning image of a supermassive black hole, this time of the one within our very own Galaxy.
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What is Hawking radiation?

It should, in theory, be emitted by the boundary surrounding a black hole, and it's one of Stephen Hawking's most famous ideas.
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Why do we think black holes are in the centre of galaxies?

Sagittarius A* at the centre of the Milky Way is a strong source of radio wave emissions and is thought to be a supermassive black hole.
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'Vampire’ star system once thought to be a black hole spotted 1,000 light-years from Earth

Rare binary system takes its gruesome name from the fact that one of the stars sucks gas and dust away from its companion.
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