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At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...
Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...
A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...
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 ...
The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...
Astronomers confirmed the first case of a star surviving a black hole encounter, challenging long-held beliefs about tidal disruption events.
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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 ...
The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...
The merger resulted in a combined black hole 225 times our sun’s mass, and challenges current astrophysical models of black ...
Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...
Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.