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Recent Examples of black holesTogether, these tools offered astronomers extraordinary insights into GRBs—extremely luminous eruptions that occur in distant galaxies when massive stars explode or collide, sometimes leaving behind neutron stars or black holes.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
4 Nov. 2026 Named after fast-flying birds, the telescope could quickly pivot to observe blink-and-you-miss-it cosmic events such as flaring black holes.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2026 Intermediate-mass black holes are thought to sit between these two families of cosmic titans with masses between 100 and 100,000 times that of the sun.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
3 Nov. 2026 Quasars – objects where matter is being ripped apart by black holes millions of times more massive than our Sun – seem to be likely candidates.—
Yjan Gordon,
The Conversation,
30 Oct. 2026 Its songs are littered with black holes, disasters, nuclear bombs; there are guttural screams and onslaughts of distorted guitar.—
Marissa Lorusso,
Pitchfork,
28 Oct. 2026 Many black holes may be unobservable, owing to their having no companions, and dark matter may be attuned to a fifth dimension.—
J. B. MacKinnon,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Oct. 2026 Extreme rotation offers a narrow loophole The researchers found that rapidly rotating black holes could provide a possible way around the entropy barrier.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Oct. 2026