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The Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever Seen Was So Rare, It Seemed Impossible. Now, Astrophysicists May Finally Have an Explanation
Earlier this year, researchers reported the most massive black hole merger ever detected. But the event was so unusual that ...
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James Webb Space Telescope spots rapidly feeding supermassive black hole in the infant universe: 'This discovery is truly remarkable.'
U sing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...
Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...
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'Impossible' black hole collision pushed relativity to its breaking point — and scientists finally understand how
In 2023, scientists detected the gravitational waves from a black hole collision that seemed impossible. New research finally ...
Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...
Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...
A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.
The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...
Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole ...
In October 2024 the network detected a clear signal that pointed back to a merger that occurred 700 million light-years away. The progenitor black holes were 20 and 6 solar masses and the larger ...
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