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April 17, 2026, 12:49 PM - 9 min read
Galaxies and stars from the contraction phase effectively collapse into black holes, erasing most of their detailed structure but preserving their mass. Could these black holes be dark matter? For decades, the leading candidate has been a fundamental particle — but none has been detected despite extensive searches.
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January 29, 2026, 04:33 PM - 6 min read
A runaway black hole of a million or billion solar masses will create huge disruptions to the stars and gas around it as it travels through a galaxy.
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August 18, 2025, 04:27 PM - 3 min read
Scientists from IIT Guwahati and ISRO have detected rapid X-ray flickering from a distant black hole, revealing new details about how its corona changes shape and temperature during gas inflows.
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June 30, 2025, 02:23 PM - 5 min read
The satellites the world relies on for navigation, communication and more get their bearings from distant black holes – but radio noise is blurring the picture.
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January 27, 2025, 01:57 PM - 6 min read
As far as astronomers know, all galaxies harbour a supermassive black hole at their very centres. In some galaxies, large amounts of interstellar gas are spiralling around the supermassive black hole and getting pulled in beyond the event horizon and essentially on to the black hole.
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October 11, 2024, 08:50 AM - 5 min read
India's AstroSat and NASA's space observatories have recorded intense explosions from the remnants of a star around a massive black hole.
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