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Astronomers Discover an Uncommon Way for Black Holes to Form
As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...
Yale team discovers birth of supermassive black hole that could confirm how black holes are created
A Yale University-led team of scientists say they’ve made a groundbreaking discovery: the possible birth of a supermassive ...
Webb spots 'Infinity Galaxy' that sheds light on black hole formation
Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...
Milky Way's Core And Supermassive Black Hole Imagery Transformed Into Sound
Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* has been sonified by SYSTEM Sounds. Credit: ...
To 'infinity' and beyond: Direct evidence of black hole birth found in galaxy named 'Infinity'
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...
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Newly Discovered “Infinity Galaxy” Might Explain How Supermassive Black Hole Came To Be
“Third, as an unexpected bonus, it turns out that both galaxy nuclei also have an active supermassive black hole. So, this ...
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JWST finds unusual black hole in the center of the Infinity Galaxy: 'How can we make sense of this?'
Everything about the Infinity Galaxy, recently discovered by the JWST, is strange. One odd feature could be the 1st evidence ...
Scientists record a black hole collision they weren’t sure was possible
The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.
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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.
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This supermassive black hole is eating way too quickly — and 'burping' at near-light speeds
Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...
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Tiny ‘primordial’ black holes created in the Big Bang may have rapidly grown to supermassive sizes
The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...
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 ...