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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
Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...
Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
When peering into the cosmic past, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a supermassive black hole that doesn't have a ...
Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes theorized to have formed shortly after the Big Bang. Compared to black holes ...
The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...
The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one observed so far. It hails from a time when the universe was rather young. A ...
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 ...
Astronomers have discovered a lightweight black hole that’s a bit of a cosmic conundrum. Hypothetically, black hole masses can range all the way from far less than a paperclip to at least tens of ...
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