Black holes are notoriously bashful beasts. The supermassive monsters that dwell at the centers of galaxies weigh millions to billions of times the mass of the sun and control the fates of everything in their vicinity, including light. Despite such outsize influence over their home galaxies, black holes never show their faces.
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Until now. After more than a decade of work, results from the Event Horizon Telescope, or EHT, stunned the world this year with the first direct image of a black hole's event horizon, the region beyond which not even light can escape.
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Oakland Raiders black hole has last moment before move to Las Vegas - The Washington Post
Prison, Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe once reckoned, was a more suitable place to be than playing football in front of Oakland-Alameda County Stadium's Sections 104, 105, 106 and 107, the seats behind the end zone referred to by Raiders fans as the Black Hole.
"It's a lot safer," Sharpe told the New York Times in 2001 . "I've been hit in the head with nails, batteries, had beer thrown at me."
Instead, many Raiders fans around the stadium remained in their seats , either unwilling to completely let go of their team's Oakland era or perhaps curious as to what mayhem they might witness. What everyone heard at that point were loud boos pouring forth from the Black Hole, an expression of unhappiness that hardly ebbed when Raiders players, including starting quarterback Derek Carr, came over to salute the fan base.
The top 10 science stories of 2019, including that black hole picture | Science News
Science is good at measuring progress — and where we fall short. Science News ' Top 10 stories of the year reflect that duality, from celebrating great achievements to highlighting problems we had hoped to avoid.
This was the year in which more than a decade of effort by hundreds of scientists who created a globe-spanning "telescope" to see the previously unseeable paid off. The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole. That now-iconic picture confirmed a fundamental theory of how our universe works (Einstein, still right) and opened up a new era of exploration, making it our top story of 2019 .
A final goodbye for Raiders fans in the infamous Black Hole
Veronica "Mz Feisty Raider" Jackson walks to her seat at the Coliseum in Oakland, Sunday was the Raiders last home game in Oakland. (Randy Vazquez / Bay Area News Group)
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OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 15: Veronica "Ms. Feisty Raider" Jackson shows her Oakland Raiders themed tattoo before the teams game at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019. Sunday was the Raiders last home game in Oakland. (Randy Vazquez / Bay Area News Group)
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This huge galaxy has the biggest black hole ever measured | Astronomy.com
Berkeley student throws cold water on 'monster' black hole discovery | Berkeley News
Kareem El-Badry and Eliot Quataert discuss the evolution of black holes in our galaxy, which may number in the 10s of millions if not 100s of millions. (UC Berkeley photo by Hulda Nelson)
Sometimes, a blockbuster discovery is just too good to be true. UC Berkeley graduate student astronomer Kareem El-Badry knows that all too well — he just shot one down.
El-Badry studies unusual binary star systems in which one of the two stars orbiting each other explodes as a supernova and turns into a black hole. But he was surprised when, on Nov. 27, the day before Thanksgiving, Chinese astronomers reported such a system with a black hole that was astoundingly large: 70 times the mass of our sun.
Newly discovered black hole is so large, it shouldn't exist
(CNN) - Scientists have discovered a "monster black hole," but they said it's so big that it shouldn't actually exist.
Before this discovery, researchers thought the size limit for stellar black holes was less than 20 times the mass of the sun, but this black hole, known as LB-1, appears to debunk that theory.
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While LB-1 is large for a stellar black hole, there are several types of black holes out there. Supermassive black holes, which are theorized to form when stellar black holes merge, are much larger.
Robo-debt risks budget black hole: Labor | 7NEWS.com.au
Labor has accused the Morrison government of risking a budget black hole created by the controversial robo-debt welfare program.
The mid-year federal budget update, released on Monday, didn't outline how much robo-debt repayments could cost the nation's coffers.
"The effect on the identified debt, total value and return or recovery will not be quantifiable until reassessments are completed," the government said.
In November, Government Services Minister Stuart Robert announced a "refinement" to robo-debt after the department said it would no longer solely rely on income averaging through tax office data.
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