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Spotify-like AI helps discover never-before-seen supernova as greedy star attempts to eat a black hole Black Hole

Spotify-like AI helps discover never-before-seen supernova as greedy star attempts to eat a black hole

An artist's impression of the events leading up to supernova SN 2023zkd, which likely occurred when a star attempted to swallow a nearby black hole. Here, the star's shape is stretched by the black hole's massive gravitational forces. (Image credit: Melissa Weiss/CfA) Scientists may have spotted a never-before-seen kind of…
bubmag
August 14, 2025
Colossal black hole 36 billion times the mass of our sun is one of the largest ever seen in the universe Black Hole

Colossal black hole 36 billion times the mass of our sun is one of the largest ever seen in the universe

A view of The Cosmic Horseshoe and its gravitational lens, in which an ultramassive black hole appears to be lurking. (Image credit: NASA/ESA) The massive " Cosmic Horseshoe " galaxy system likely hosts a colossal black hole measuring 36 billion times the mass of our sun — one of the…
bubmag
August 13, 2025
AI helps astronomers make a potentially major find — an exploding star being attacked by a black hole Black Hole

AI helps astronomers make a potentially major find — an exploding star being attacked by a black hole

Artificial intelligence has helped astronomers observe what may be the first known case of a star exploding while interacting with a black hole, a new study reports. (Image credit: Melissa Weiss/CfA) Astronomers have observed what may be the first known case of a massive star exploding while interacting with a…
bubmag
August 13, 2025
A black hole over 1.3 trillion times more massive than the Earth: The oldest ever recorded Black Hole

A black hole over 1.3 trillion times more massive than the Earth: The oldest ever recorded

An artist representation of the CAPERS-LRD-z9 galaxy (Image source: Erik Zumalt and The University of Texas at Austin) A team of astronomers has discovered a black hole that possibly dates back as early as 13.3 billion years ago — only 500 million years after the Big Bang. This discovery could…
bubmag
August 13, 2025