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This tiny spacecraft could race to a black hole and rewrite physics
A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...
A 'mysterious giant' behind binary black holes? Astronomers uncover first evidence of a third compact object
The binary black holes in the universe are already astonishing enough, but researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical ...
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 ...
Heaviest Black Hole Ever Found Pushes Limit of What’s Cosmologically Possible
Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it ...
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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 ...
Largest-ever merger of black holes forms one 225 times the mass of the sun, astronomers say
The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...
Did 'primordial' black holes born right after the Big Bang help our universe's 1st stars form?
New research suggests that primordial black holes could have played an important role in the formation of the universe's ...
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1st detection of 'hiccupping' black hole leads to surprising discovery ...
The results suggest the accretion disks around black holes may be home to a surprising array of cosmic objects, including other black holes and stars. "We thought we knew a lot about black ...