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Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...
Astronomers using JWST and other telescopes found a supermassive black hole floating between two colliding galaxies — not in either galaxy center, but embedded in shocked gas. Why it matters: If ...
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and his team have discovered direct evidence of a black hole birth in a recently-collided galaxy duo named 'Infinity'.
A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...
But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...
Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...
Named GW 231123 after the date it was recorded on 23 November 2023, it's the most massive black hole collision we've seen yet ...
Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...