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MSU receives NASA grant to study black holes

MSU astrophysicist Amy Reines has been awarded a grant from NASA to search for the origin of supermassive black holes. The three-year, $750,000 NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Grant (EPSCoR), will provide Reines with funding and support to continue her research into black holes, a subject

Astro Weekly: The birth of a black hole

When the very concept of a black hole first emerged around 1915 from the theory of general relativity, Albert Einstein suspected that his math was flawed. Subsequent theoretical work suggesting the existence of a gravitational singularity (a place where the laws of physics don’t exist) resulted in more skepticism.