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07 Apr 2020

Ultra Rare Black Hole Found

Finally, science has confirmed the existence of a distant, intermediate massive black hole in a  galaxy approximately 740 million light years away. The first hint of this discovery actually came in 2006, when scientists detected some X-ray bursts powerful enough to indicate something was being destroyed. With the help of the massive Hubble Space Telescope, it was confirmed there was only one plausible explanation for this activity–it was likely an intermediate massive black hole destroying a star, creating a tremendous amount of energy in the process. Host Anton Petrov brings us more in this episode of What Da Math.

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10 Feb 2020

Do White Holes Exist?

There’s been plenty of research and ample discussion of black holes in our universe–those regions in space where mass is packed so densely that it forms a singularity that not even light can escape. But what about their bizarro twins, their total opposite–white holes. Written off many times by science as a mathematical quirk, white holes remain hypothetical, though the math checks out and the reason to search for them are numerous. Host Julian Huguet takes a deeper look at the conundrum in this episode of Seeker.

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13 Nov 2019

Planet 9 Might Be a Black Hole

In 2016, scientists proposed that our solar system is home to a ninth planet with an orbit beyond those of Neptune and Uranus. Known as Planet 9 and located in the farthest reaches of the solar system, it is a shocking 400 to 800 times farther from the Sun than Earth and it would take 15,000 years to complete one orbit. But in a recent stunning revelation, two scientists now believe that Planet 9 is not a planet at all but could actually be a tiny black hole. Learn more from SciShow Space.

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31 Jul 2015

Mama Black Holes

Of all the mysteries in the universe, scientists’ theory that baby universes are born in black holes ranks right up there with the most peculiar. Granted, our greatest minds still grapple with what black holes are and what they do, but the recent theory that they give birth to baby universes has some merit.

If the theory is true, that means our universe is inside a black hole, which is inside a black hole, which is inside a black hole … and so on. In the following edition of Top Tenz, the confusion is unraveled, along with nine other mind-bending theories about the universe.

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21 Nov 2012

Birth of a Black Hole

Far out in space, in the center of a seething cosmic maelstrom. Extreme heat. High velocities. Atoms tear, and space literally buckles. Photons fly out across the universe, energized to the limits found in nature.

What can we learn by witnessing the violent birth of a black hole? Watch for the full episode, coming soon to Cosmic Journeys.

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