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Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...
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As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large ...
Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...
A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.
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As you can probably imagine by this point, falling into a black hole would be terrifying. "If you fell into a black hole, the gravitational pull would stretch you out in a process called ...