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Merger of two massive black holes is one for the record books
To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected mergers involved either two black holes or two neutron stars. In 2021, LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA confirmed the detection of two separate "mixed" mergers between black holes and neutron stars.
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Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...
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JWST finds unusual black hole in the center of the Infinity Galaxy: 'How can we make sense of this?'"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We asked ourselves: How can we make sense of this?" ...
Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...
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The music of falling into a black holeWhat would it sound like falling into a black hole? Or, more importantly, what would it feel like? Metacosmos by Anna Þorvaldsdóttir aims to answer these questions, using black holes as a metaphor for ...
Black holes like this one may gorge for about five to 10 million years–then go dormant for 100 million.
A radical hypothesis suggesting black holes could be behind the accelerating expansion of our universe has been stirring up controversy among astronomers. A new study may contain the first ...
Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar feature: the singularity at the center—a point, hidden behind the ...
NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.
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