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Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with them. A recent discovery of one of the strangest supernovas ever observed reveals the tragic story of a star that tried to defy the powerful pull of a nearby black hole but later conceded in an explosive …

What the heck is that?! Rabbits in Colorado are causing alarm among residents and looking more like creatures from nightmares and not fuzzy and cuddly friends. Rabbits in Fort Collins, Colorado, are being spotted with eerie black-colored growths resembling tentacles or horns protruding from their heads. 9NEWS Northern Colorado reporter Amanda Gilbert captured a photo of one not-so-cute rabbit with …

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While there is the expression “Once in a blue moon,” once in a while, there is a Black Moon too. Later in August, a rare Black Moon will be seen — or rather, hidden — in the night sky. A Black Moon is the moniker for a third new moon out of four in an astronomical season, instead of the …

Astronomers have identified what could be a new supermassive black hole, and with an estimated mass 36 billion times that of the sun, it is about 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This would make it among the most massive objects ever detected. The finding, published in the Monthly Notice of the …

An astrophysicist has made an ambitious proposal for how humanity could probe the extreme physics of black holes — by sending a spaceship no bigger than a paperclip to our nearest one. The spacecraft, no heavier than a gram and propelled to a third of the speed of light by lasers on Earth, would gather information on a nearby space-time …

Astronomers have discovered what could be the largest black hole ever detected. With a mass of 36 billion times that of our Sun, its gravity is so powerful that it bends the light of an entire galaxy behind it into a near-perfect circle called an Einstein ring, effectively reducing a realm with trillions of stars of its own into an …

When police searched a home in Upland as part of a recent burglary investigation, they weren’t looking for piles of cash or bags full of jewelry, but boxes of what has become the must-have item of the year. Within each of the 14 boxes taken from the home, Chino police said, were those little customizable monsters that are taking over …

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified the earliest black hole found thus far, dating back to more than 13 billion years ago. The black hole and its home galaxy, together dubbed CAPERS-LRD-z9, existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang. Its properties could help researchers understand what the universe was like in that elusive early …

We’ve all been enjoying these bright full moons of summer, but a black moon is now on the rise. Not an official astronomical term, a black moon refers to the second new moon in a single calendar month, or the third of four in one astronomical season. It’s essentially the dark side of a blue moon. The Aug. 22 new …