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Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv ...
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
Astronomers have spotted a bright flare from a distant galaxy. The flare came from the exact same location as a similar event ...
The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...
Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has ...
The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...
The data taken from 2011 to 2017, and particularly in 2017, has now enabled us to construct an image of a black hole's event horizon for the first time. APEX, IRAM, G. Narayanan, J. McMahon, ...
Resolving the central black hole is a task that only the Event Horizon Telescope can rise to, and may yet detect its motion over time. S. Sakai / A. Ghez / W.M. Keck Observatory / UCLA Galactic ...
Small, as far as supermassive black holes go. The incredible size of M87* was partly why it was such a good candidate for the Event Horizon Telescope to capture the world's first image of a black ...
These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...