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To 'infinity' and beyond: Direct evidence of black hole birth found in galaxy named 'Infinity'
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...
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Gravitational shockwave: LIGO catches a 225-solar-mass black-hole smash-up
Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...
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 ...
Sharper gravitational-wave analysis promises clearer insights into black hole collisions
A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...
Black Hole Jet Runs Into 'Unidentified Object' In Chandra X-Ray Telescope Observations
A black hole jet from the Centaurus A galaxy is "hitting something along its path," that is baffling astronomers. The Chandra ...
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Black Hole or Vampire Star?
In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to ...
Primordial black hole flybys could alter exoplanet orbits
Though our solar system and the movement of its planets appear relatively sedate, there are many things that could upset the ...
Physicists Found a Path to Black Holes That Einstein Couldn’t See Coming
At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...