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Astronomers detect most massive black hole collision to date
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
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LIGO Just Saw The Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever Detected
The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.
Physicists detect largest-ever merger of 2 black holes equal in size to 240 suns
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as gravitational waves.
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Astro Brief: Primordial Black Holes
Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...
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Monster Black Hole Merger Is Most Massive Ever Seen
A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...
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 ...
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Galaxy Of Closest Pair Of Black Holes Viewable In Stunning 4K
Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...
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Astronomers observe the biggest booms since the Big Bang
ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...