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Monster black hole merger is biggest ever seen
“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK Collaboration, a wider network of gravitational-wave detectors that encompasses LIGO, Virgo in Italy and KAGRA in Japan. It’s “about 50% more than the previous record holder”, he says.
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A black hole jet from the Centaurus A galaxy is "hitting something along its path," that is baffling astronomers. The Chandra ...
Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...
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Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...
Though our solar system and the movement of its planets appear relatively sedate, there are many things that could upset the ...
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