This new photo of a supermassive black hole is unlike any before, showing powerful magnetic fields spiraling around it

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The Event Horizon Telescope's polarized view of Sagittarius A*. The lines mark the orientation of polarization, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole.

EHT Collaboration

Black holes are rampaging through our universe at more than 2.2 million mph and scientists think they now know why

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Illustration of a black hole warping space-time around it.
On rare occasions, black holes can get kicked into space after they form.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope broke its own record to discover the oldest black hole yet, but it has astronomers even more confused about the beginning of the universe

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An artist's impression of a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole surrounded by a disc of super-heated material.

ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser

India launches a satellite to study black holes as it preps to become the fourth country to send humans into space

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People watch a Indian Space Research Organisation launch.
People watch an Indian Space Research Organization launch in September 2023.

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13 breathtaking images NASA's James Webb Space Telescope took this year that changed our understanding of the universe

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Four images taken by JWST showing the Orion nebula (upper left), Uranus (upper right), a Wolf-Rayet star (lower left), and the Ring Nebula (lower right).

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team, ESA/Webb, M. Barlow (UCL), N. Cox (ACRI-ST), R. Wesson (Cardiff University) M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), and the PDRs4All ERS Team

A supermassive black hole is actually losing energy instead of gobbling it all up, new research shows

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The first image of a black hole shows the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87.

Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

NASA's James Webb and X-ray telescopes combine powers to discover the most distant black hole ever in a rare state of infancy

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X-ray image of the msot distant black hole ever discovered.

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Ákos Bogdán; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & K. Arcand

Black holes can speed through the universe at 17,500 miles per second, scientists say — and the discovery could reveal new laws of physics

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Black hole collision illustration
Black holes can get caught in each others gravitational grip and either collide or recoil.

NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello

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