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Black hole in deep space

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Einstein was right about the way matter plunges into black holes

For the first time, astronomers have observed the area right at the edge of a black hole where matter stops orbiting and plunges straight in at near light speed

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Artists impression of a black hole

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Supermassive black holes may provide a nursery for mini ones to grow

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I might be an astrophysicist, but I'm still learning about stargazing

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Most newborn black holes spew gas so hard they almost stop spinning

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Mysterious object may be the lightest black hole we've ever seen

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Images of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87

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New fiery doughnut image is our most detailed glimpse of a black hole

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Wolf-Rayet stars are known to be efficient dust producers, and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope shows this to great effect. Cooler cosmic dust glows at the longer mid-infrared wavelengths, displaying the structure of WR 124?s nebula. The nebula is made of material cast off from the aging star in random ejections, and from dust produced in the ensuing turbulence. This brilliant stage of mass loss precedes the star?s eventual supernova, when nuclear fusion in its core stops and the pressure of gravity causes it to collapse in on itself, and then explode. As MIRI demonstrates here, Webb will help astronomers to explore questions that were previously only left to theory about how much dust stars like this create before exploding in a supernova, and how much of that dust is large enough to survive the blast and go on to serve as building blocks of future stars and planets.

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How galactic mysteries near and far are poised to shake up cosmology

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Abell 370 is a distant collection of several hundred galaxies

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Weird cosmic clumping hints our understanding of the universe is wrong

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Illustration of an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray hitting Earth

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A mysterious, incredibly energetic cosmic ray has smashed into Earth

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KPJYBX Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth?s atmosphere. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particl

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Why we need to bring stellar astrophysics into the real world

Explaining the structure and evolution of stars may seem as esoteric as can be, but there are many applications for this knowledge in our day-to-day lives, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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A blast of radio waves hit Earth after travelling for 8 billion years

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Why trying to photograph a black hole was a massive gamble

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Mathematicians find 12,000 solutions for fiendish three-body problem

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Black holes may be hurtling around at 10 per cent the speed of light

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