47 SPACE AROUND A SPINNING BLACK HOLE IS WARPED

Spinning black holes distort space-time, wrapping it into a swirl known as the ergosphere. Within this area, space itself moves faster than the speed of light.

48 W49B IS THE YOUNGEST KNOWN IN THE MILKY WAY

A supernova remnant is all that remains of a star that exploded 1,000 years ago. There’s no evidence of a neutron star at its core, leading astronomers to believe that it harbours a young black hole.

49 SPINNING BLACK HOLES HAVE A DOUGHNUT-SHAPED MAGNETIC FIELD FORMATION

As matter swirls around the accretion disc of a black hole, the magnetic fields line up, forming a doughnut-shaped ring with the event horizon nestled at the centre.

50 SMALLER GALAXIES CONTAIN MEDIUMSIZED BLACK HOLES

It was originally thought that black holes only came in two sizes: stellarmass black holes and supermassive black holes. However, researchers using data from

NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) were able to measure a medium-sized black hole in Messier 82 to be around 400 solar masses. Known as intermediate-mass black holes, these seeds of the most destructive objects in the universe contain between 100 and 10,000 times the mass of the Sun.