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The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...
But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...
Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...
“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...
"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.
New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...
Astronomers have discovered the ‘Infinity’ galaxy — two merging galaxies forming a supermassive black hole — possibly the ...
As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...