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What are 'dark' stars? Scientists think they could explain 3 big mysteries in the universe

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Astronomers baffled by 'mysterious disruptor' with a mass of 1 million suns and a black hole for a heart

The gravitational lens JVAS B1938+666 consists of massive bodies ranging from 6.5 billion to 11 billion light-years away, ...
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50 million times heavier than Sun: This black hole breaks rules of how galaxies are formed

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.
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Mysterious ‘impossible’ merger of two massive black holes explained

A comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range ...
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Black hole stars: Giant stars may hide black holes at their core

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object called “The Cliff” appears to show that many of the mysterious “little red ...

X-ray spectra provide sharpest image to date of a rapidly spinning black hole

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...
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Researchers propose dark stars as a solution to early cosmic anomalies

New research explores how dark stars, powered by dark matter, could account for puzzling observations from the early universe ...
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Physicists Propose Cheaper Alternative to Particle Colliders: Supermassive Black Holes

A new study from Johns Hopkins University suggests that supermassive black holes—those cosmic behemoths lurking at the centers of galaxies—might already be generating the kinds of high-energy ...