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Astronomers have for the first time measured the speed and direction of a newborn black hole, thanks to gravitational waves produced as it bounced away from the site of its parent black holes’ merger. This first complete measurement of black hole recoil comes almost exactly a decade after the first detection of gravitational waves — tiny ripples in spacetime first …

Black Rock Coffee Bar raised $294 million in an initial public offering Friday, with its stock soaring 38% as trading began in New York. The company priced shares at $20 but they climbed to $27.53 on the first day of trading. That gives Black Rock a market value of about $1.3 billion. Black Rock founders Daniel Brand and Jeff Hernandez …

Black students across the US were targeted this week by coordinated racist death threats, forcing at least seven historically Black colleges into emergency lockdowns just a day after the far-right activist Charlie Kirk was killed at Utah Valley University. At New York University, Black students reportedly received a threatening manifesto specifically targeting them, according to an email seen by the …

Black holes may be invisible, but their surroundings aren’t — and for the first time, astronomers have directly measured a superheated “corona” encircling one of these cosmic giants. The supermassive black hole, RX J1131, sits about 6 billion light-years from Earth and spins at more than half the speed of light. While the monster itself remains hidden, it gorges on …

Dakota Johnson made a bold appearance at the Kering Foundation’s Caring for Women dinner in New York City on September 11. She wore a sheer black lace Gucci dress with nothing below but black underwear. She completed the daring look with an updo, emerald earrings, and a smokey eye. According to Dakota Johnson, the sheer trend is still going strong. …

New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or Earth-based telescope to spot an exploding black hole. Such a detection would change our perspective of the universe by proving the existence of “primordial black holes” born 13.8 billion years ago, a second after the Big Bang. Scientists have long …

A black hole unlike any seen before has been spotted in the early universe. It’s huge and appears to be essentially on its own, with few stars circling it. The object, which may represent a whole new class of enormous “naked” black holes, upends the textbook understanding of the young universe. “This is completely off the scale,” said Roberto Maiolino, …

Physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have challenged long-held assumptions about black holes and now estimate up to a 90% chance of observing a primordial black hole explosion within the next decade. (Artist’s concept). Credit: SciTechDaily.com UMass Amherst physicists believe such an explosion could occur within the next decade, potentially “revolutionizing physics and rewriting the history of the universe.” …

Black holes can lose mass and energy over time. They release Hawking radiation. The smaller they are, the more radiation they emit, so the hotter they get. The end scenario is the black holes exploding into nothing. Could we observe such an exploding black hole? Maybe, if a bunch of conditions are met. If they are, we could see them …

Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered seven supermassive black hole-powered quasars surrounded by veils of dust that existed when the universe was less than a billion years old. Supermassive black holes consuming vast amounts of matter and shining as bright quasars while being hidden in thick clouds of …