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Black hole growth hits record speed after Big Bang—now 100 million suns’ worth of mass
Just 570 million years after the Big Bang, a young, compact galaxy named CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 appears to host a supermassive black ...
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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 questions around its origin sowed confusion within the astrophysics ...
Scientists say they detected the largest-ever merger of two black holes, forming one that is 225 times the mass of the sun, adding that the new discovery "pushes the limits of" how astronomers ...
Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...
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Have gravitational waves provided the first hint of primordial black holes born during the Big Bang?
"If this turns out to be real, then it’s enormous." ...
On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...
How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...
Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.
Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies. But there's an open question in ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Bill Smith, Vanderbilt University; Karan Jani, Vanderbilt University, and Krystal Ruiz ...
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