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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
Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...
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James Webb Space Telescope spots rapidly feeding supermassive black hole in the infant universe: 'This discovery is truly remarkable.'
U sing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...
Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...
Just when you think you understand black holes, the James Webb Space Telescope goes and discovers something that no one has ...
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As our black hole images get more detailed, we may find Einstein wasn't quite right about them
"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...
The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...
Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes theorized to have formed shortly after the Big Bang. Compared to black holes ...
In October 2024 the network detected a clear signal that pointed back to a merger that occurred 700 million light-years away. The progenitor black holes were 20 and 6 solar masses and the larger ...
The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one observed so far. It hails from a time when the universe was rather young. A ...
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