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Every Black Hole Contains a New Universe

Every Black Hole Contains a New Universe | Science News | Scoop.it

Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It’s a theory that has been explored over the past few decades by a small group of physicists including myself.

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How black holes change gear

How black holes change gear | Science News | Scoop.it

Black holes are extremely powerful and efficient engines that not only swallow up matter, but also return a lot of energy to the Universe in exchange for the mass they eat.

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World Science Festival Video : What Are Black Holes?

World Science Festival Video : What Are Black Holes? | Science News | Scoop.it
What are black holes? Where do they come from? Brian Greene demystifies one of the greatest destructive forces in the universe.
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Massive Black-Hole Engines --Powerful New Link Discovered to Galaxy Growth

Massive Black-Hole Engines --Powerful New Link Discovered to Galaxy Growth | Science News | Scoop.it
Astronomers, using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory, have shown that the number of stars that form during the early lives of galaxies may be influenced by the massive black holes at their hearts.


BLACK HOLE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=Black%20Hole

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Image of the Day: Supermassive Black Hole Devouring a Star

Image of the Day: Supermassive Black Hole Devouring a Star | Science News | Scoop.it

Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassiveblack hole shredding a star that wandered too close in a galaxy 2.7 billion light-years away. . NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a space-based observatory, and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on the summit of Haleakala in Hawaii wereamong the first to help identify the stellar remains.

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[VIDEO] Who's Afraid of a Big Black Hole

Black holes are one of the most destructive forces in the universe, capable of tearing a planet apart and swallowing an entire star. 

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Astronomers put forward new theory on size of black holes

Astronomers put forward new theory on size of black holes | Science News | Scoop.it

Astronomers have put forward a new theory about why black holes become so hugely massive – claiming some of them have no 'table manners', and tip their 'food' directly into their mouths, eating more than one course simultaneously.

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Chandra Spots a Black Hole’s High-Speed Hurricane

Chandra Spots a Black Hole’s High-Speed Hurricane | Science News | Scoop.it
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have reported record-breaking wind speeds coming from a stellar-mass black hole.
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Black Hole in Milky Way Seen Snacking on Asteroids?

Black Hole in Milky Way Seen Snacking on Asteroids? | Science News | Scoop.it
An ongoing rocky buffet would explain bright x-ray flares seen around our galaxy's supermassive black hole since 1999, astronomers say.
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Do black holes help stars form?

Do black holes help stars form? | Science News | Scoop.it
The center of just about every galaxy is thought to host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around them.
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Black Holes May Turboboost Super-Civilizations : Discovery News

Black Holes May Turboboost Super-Civilizations : Discovery News | Science News | Scoop.it
A consortium of super civilizations might pool resources to build a chain of power stations encircling the supermassive black hole at the core of our galaxy.
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Exploring space burps

Exploring space burps | Science News | Scoop.it
(PhysOrg.com) -- Forget the Big Bang theory on the origins of the universe. University of Alberta physicist Greg Sivakoff is looking to find the secrets of the Big Burp theory.
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Scientists gear up to take a picture of a black hole

Scientists gear up to take a picture of a black hole | Science News | Scoop.it
On Wednesday, Jan. 18, astronomers, physicists and scientists from related fields will convene in Tucson, Ariz. from across the world to discuss an endeavor that only a few years ago would have been regarded as nothing less than outrageous.
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[VIDEO] NASA | Simulations Uncover 'Flashy' Secrets of Merging Black Holes

A team led by Bruno Giacomazzo at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and including Baker developed computer simulations that for the first time show what happens in the magnetized gas (also called a plasma) in the last stages of a black hole merger.

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Every black hole contains a new universe: A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries

Every black hole contains a new universe: A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries | Science News | Scoop.it
Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today.


More on BLACK HOLES: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=Black%20Hole

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Black holes turn up the heat for the Universe

Black holes turn up the heat for the Universe | Science News | Scoop.it

A collaboration of scientists at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and in Canada and the US have now discovered that diffuse gas in the universe can absorb luminous gamma-ray emission from black holes, heating it up strongly. This surprising result has important implications for the formation of structures in the universe.


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[VIDEO] Animation of a star torn apart by a black hole

In June 2010, astronomers saw the eruption of light from a star as it was shredded by a supermassive black hole. This happened 2.7 billion light years away in a distant galaxy!

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Black Holes: Facts, Formation & Discovery

Black Holes: Facts, Formation & Discovery | Science News | Scoop.it

Black holes are some of the strangest and most fascinating objects found in outer space. They are objects of extreme density, with such strong gravitational attraction that even light cannot escape from their grasp if it comes near enough.


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Michio Kaku: A Black Hole in Our Own Backyard?

A wandering black hole may catch up with us one day and eat us for breakfast and it wouldn't even burp in the process.

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One Black Hole Won't Ruin Your Day

One Black Hole Won't Ruin Your Day | Science News | Scoop.it

A black hole hitting Earth sounds like the ultimate doomsday scenario. But it probably won't hurt much, say researchers who created computer simulations to see what would happen if a puny primordial black hole, born just after the big bang, struck our planet.

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Black Hole "Information Leaks" Hint Gravity May Not be a Fundamental Force of Nature

Black Hole "Information Leaks" Hint Gravity May Not be a Fundamental Force of Nature | Science News | Scoop.it
Back in 2011, ground-breaking research by scientists at the University of York provided a new perspective on the physics of black holes. Black holes are objects in space that are so massive and compact they were described by Einstein as...
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Black Holes --Do They Function as Engines of Star Birth?

Black Holes --Do They Function as Engines of Star Birth? | Science News | Scoop.it
The centers of most --if not all-- galaxies host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around them. They had been thought to hinder the birth of...
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Cosmic Log - Scientists to catch a black hole

Cosmic Log - Scientists to catch a black hole | Science News | Scoop.it
Astronomers are setting up a virtual telescope as wide as our planet to capture the first picture outlining our galaxy's monstrous black hole.  "Everybody's super-excited," one of the leaders of the effort, astrophysicist Dimitrios Psaltis of the ...
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Mystery of Supermassive Black Holes --Were They Formed Early in the Universe?

Mystery of Supermassive Black Holes --Were They Formed Early in the Universe? | Science News | Scoop.it

Most of these are sleeping cosmic beasts, just sitting there. So we have to scan the skies to see those very rare times when there's a burst of radiation as the black hole feeds."

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