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Scientists have revealed they’ve seen the cosmic equivalent of this – two black holes merging on the outskirts of our galaxy.
The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...
The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...
The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...
To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected ...
A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole ...
"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?" ...
A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...