Friday, September 16, 2016

Astronomers might have just caught a glimpse of a black hole being born

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For the first time ever, a team of astronomers might have witnessed the birth of a black hole, roughly 20 million light-years from Earth.

While researchers have long thought that black holes form when supergiant stars collapse, new data from the Hubble Space Telescope might finally confirm this hypothesis.

Full story at:  Science Alert

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