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Astronomers discovered a whole new class of black holes
New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...
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Researchers Come Up With Two New Models To Explain Black Holes Without Singularities
A new study has been accepted by the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics that proposes two new models of black ...
‘Very massive stars’ shed enormous mass before collapsing into black holes: Study
A team of scientists has developed a new model to study ‘very massive stars’ and their impact on the formation of black holes ...
Discovering One Of The Largest Black Holes In The Universe
How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 billion times the mass of the sun.
Gravitational waves: Listening to the heartbeat of space-time
Predicted by Einstein and dismissed as undetectable, gravitational waves were finally heard in 2016. Now, with observatories ...
Q&A: Astrophysicist explains how black hole mergers and quasars help detect gravitational wave networks
Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...
Three years of science: Ten cosmic surprises from NASA's Webb telescope
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...
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Scientists Look To Black Holes To Study The Universe. But Phone And Wi-Fi Satellites Are Blocking The View
These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...
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'This is the holy grail of theoretical physics.' Is the key to quantum gravity hiding in this new way to make black holes?
"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...