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LIGO Just Saw The Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever Detected
The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.
Scientists record a black hole collision they weren’t sure was possible
The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.
Astronomers detect most massive black hole collision to date
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
Webb spots 'Infinity Galaxy' that sheds light on black hole formation
Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...
Physicists detect largest-ever merger of 2 black holes equal in size to 240 suns
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as gravitational waves.
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Tiny ‘primordial’ black holes created in the Big Bang may have rapidly grown to supermassive sizes
The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...
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Galaxy Of Closest Pair Of Black Holes Viewable In Stunning 4K
Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...
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 ...