by Kevin Pimbblet Black holes are long-time superstars of science fiction. But their Hollywood fame is a little strange given that no-one has ever actually seen one – at least, until now. If you needed to see to believe, then thank the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which has just produced…
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A consortium of astronomers said Thursday they had for the first time confirmed a prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity by observing the gravitational effects of a supermassive black hole on a star zipping by it. The German-born theoretical physicist had posited that large gravitational forces could stretch…
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And it’s much bigger than we expected. An artist’s image of a black hole with an accretion disk and a quasar shooting away from it. Robin Dienel, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science There was a bang. A big one. It was the beginning of everything, but for several…
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