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    bizarre What happens if you fall into a black hole? NASA simulations provide an answer.

    Anyone who has watched Matthew McConaughey plunge into a supermassive black hole in "Interstellar" may think they have a rough idea of what it'd be like to encounter one of these terrifying cosmic formations. But a Hollywood blockbuster set decades in the future is no comparison to the real...
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    First-of-Its-Kind 'Quantum Tornado' Achieves Record-Breaking Black Hole Mimicry

    A superfluid vortex controlled in a lab is helping physicists learn more about the behavior of black holes. A whirlpool generated in helium cooled to just a fraction above absolute zero mimics the gravitational environment of these objects to such high precision that it's giving unprecedented...
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    Black-hole 'particle accelerators' are causing mysterious cosmic rays to rain down on Earth at nearly the speed of light

    A small black hole is helping scientists understand how mysterious cosmic rays can barrel through the universe and hit Earth at nearly the speed of light. High-energy cosmic rays are constantly raining down on us from space, but scientists don't know that much about them. One long-standing...
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    Supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is approaching the cosmic speed limit, dragging space-time along with it

    Supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* is spinning nearly as fast as it can, dragging the very fabric of space-time with it and shaping the heart of the Milky Way. The supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy isn't just spinning — it's doing so at almost maximum speed, dragging...
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