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Black Hole (Getty Images)

A black hole suddenly flips over

Artist's impression of a hot and dense accretion disk around a black hole, which can be a rich production site of heavy elements. Neutron-rich material is ejected from the disk, enabling the rapid neutron-capture process (r-process). The light blue region is a particularly fast ejection of matter, called a jet, which typically originates parallel to the disk's rotation axis. (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)

There's gold in them thar black holes

Researchers observed bright flares of X-ray emissions, produced as gas falls into a supermassive black hole. The flares echoed off of the gas falling into the black hole, and as the flares were subsiding, short flashes of X-rays were seen – corresponding to the reflection of the flares from the far side of the disk, bent around the black hole by its strong gravitational field. (Dan Wilkins)

Astronomers see behind a black hole

Ted Cruz, Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How the Republican black hole was formed

Kirk Swearingen

Illustration of a newly discovered black hole named MAXI J1820+070. (Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

How to explore a black hole

Leo Rodriguez, Shanshan Rodriguez - The Conversation

Full-Sky Map Of Cosmic Background Radiation, A Full-Sky Map Produced By The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (Wmap) Showing Cosmic Background Radiation, A Very Uniform Glow Of Microwaves Emitted By The Infant Universe More Than 13 Billion Years Ago. (Getty Images)

What are "leftover" black holes?

Image of a cluster of galaxies from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (NASA)

The first galaxies in the universe

Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other (Getty Images)

The missing type of black hole — found

Hale-Bopp Comet behind the Very Large Array (VLA) Radio Telescope near Socorro, New Mexico. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The mystery of the extragalactic signal

Artist's concept of the hypothetical Planet Nine (Caltech/R. Hurt [IPAC])

Is Planet 9 a tiny black hole?

A black hole just ate a neutron star

(Getty/Cappan)

Black holes don't always start as stars

Nicole Karlis, Keith A. Spencer

Katie Bouman (Twitter/MIT_CSAIL)

Sexist mob can't let women scientists be

The first image of a black hole. (The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration et al.)

Our 236-year path to seeing a black hole

Keith A. Spencer

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Star swings around black hole

Camille M. Carlisle - Sky & Telescope

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The next big discovery in astronomy?

Eileen Meyer - The Conversation

(AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

What we know because of Stephen Hawking

Christoph Adami - The Conversation

(AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

Hawking's success: against all odds

Martin Rees - The Conversation

A still from NOVA's "Black Hole Apocalypse" (PBS)

NOVA's "Black Hole Apocalypse"

This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion with a rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in its center. In October 2017, astronomers detected the merger of two neutron stars some 130 million light-years away. (Getty/NASA)

How neutron stars make gold

Keith A. Spencer

(Getty/vchal)

The black hole next door

Keith A. Spencer

Artist's conception shows two merging black holes similar to those detected by LIGO. The black holes are spinning in a non-aligned fashion, which means they have different orientations relative to the overall orbital motion of the pair. LIGO found hints that at least one black hole in the system called GW170104 was non-aligned with its orbital motion before it merged with its partner. (LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet))

The day the universe shook

Keith A. Spencer

(Reuters/Kimberly White)

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