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Scientists detect biggest merger of two black holes
The event is the most massive black hole merger ever recorded by gravitational wave detectors and has forced physicists to rethink their models of how the enormous objects form. The signal was recorded when it hit detectors on Earth sensitive enough to detect shudders in space-time thousands of times smaller than the width of a proton.
"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...
Here are 8 rare and stunning black hole images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, showing deep space wonders.
ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...
In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.
Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...
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