What is Hawking radiation?
Stephen Hawking predicted that black holes slowly give off energy, now called Hawking radiation.
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Could the Large Hadron Collider make a black hole?
Fears that the Large Hadron Collider could create a dangerous black hole were debunked by scientists.
What is at the center of the Milky Way?
A supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*, about 4 million times the mass of the Sun, sits at the center of the Milky Way, and its first image was released in 2022.
When was the first image of a black hole taken?
The first image of a black hole, in the galaxy M87, was released in 2019.
What is spaghettification?
"Spaghettification" describes how a black hole's gravity would stretch an object into a long, thin strand.
Who popularized the term "black hole"?
Physicist John Wheeler popularized the term "black hole" in 1967.
When were gravitational waves first detected?
Gravitational waves from two merging black holes were first detected by LIGO in 2015.
Who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for black hole research?
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for black hole research.
Would Earth get sucked in if the Sun became a black hole?
If the Sun were replaced by a black hole of the same mass, Earth's orbit wouldn't change.
What was the first black hole discovered?
Cygnus X-1 was the first object widely accepted as a black hole.
Does time slow down near a black hole?
Time slows down near a black hole.
Did the movie "Interstellar" contribute to science?
The black hole visuals created for the movie "Interstellar" led to a published scientific paper.