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Sharper gravitational-wave analysis promises clearer insights into black hole collisions
A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...
What's at the center of a black hole? Scientists have a sobering answer.
But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...
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Astronomers discover ultrapowerful black hole jet as bright as 10 trillion suns lit by Big Bang's afterglow
Astronomers have discovered extraordinarily powerful X-ray jets blasting from two supermassive black holes that are so ancient that the jets shine in the afterglow of the Big Bang.
To 'infinity' and beyond: Direct evidence of black hole birth found in galaxy named 'Infinity'
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...
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The Milky Way’s Central Black Hole Gives Radio Astronomers a Surprise ...
The streaks may be the fading remains of explosive outbursts from the black hole, Sagittarius A*, which contains the mass of 4 million suns, according to Farhad Yusef-Zadeh of Northwestern ...
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For the first time, astronomers watch a black hole ‘wake up’ in ...
A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While famous for devouring anything and everything in its gravitational ...
Gravitational shockwave: LIGO catches a 225-solar-mass black-hole smash-up
Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...