Images show what it's like to fall into a black hole

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Illustration of a black hole obliterating a planet.
Illustration of a black hole obliterating a planet.

MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Black hole 'particle accelerators' are causing mysterious cosmic rays to rain down on Earth at the speed of light

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An artist's impression show a black hole sucking material from a star
An artist's impression shows a microquasar that allowed scientists to find the location of a natural particle accelerator.

Science Communication Lab for MPIK/H.E.S.S.

A bizarre galaxy NASA spotted at the edge of the universe could upend what we know about supermassive black holes

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A picture from JWST shows the location of a distant galaxy called UHT-1 and its black hole.
A picture taken by JWST and Chandra X-ray observatory shows the location of a UHZ-1 and its black hole near the beginning of the universe.

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

A mysterious star from outside the Milky Way has somehow ended up near our galaxy's supermassive black hole

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A picture shows a star near the region where the Sagittarius A* black hole should be. The picture looks like yellow blobs on a dark background, two circles highlight the location of the star and the black hole.
A star called S0-6 (circled in blue), was found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*, circled in green) at the center of the Milky Way.

Miyagi University of Education/ NAOJ

The black hole at the center of the Milky Way is spinning so fast, it's squishing space-time down like a football

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milky way galaxy with zoomed in section on black hole
A cross-section showing Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

NASA

Black holes mysteriously burp up fragments of stars they destroyed years earlier, and scientists have no idea why

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An artist's impression shows a jet of matter spewing from a black hole.
An artist's impression of a tidal disruption event. New research suggests that, contrary to what was previously thought, black holes can spew remnants of stars years after swallowing them.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

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