Scientists Find Five New Pairs of Merging Supermassive Black Holes
By combining data from different telescopes, astronomers have discovered five new pairs of merging supermassive black holes. Astronomers have identified a bumper crop of dual…
By combining data from different telescopes, astronomers have discovered five new pairs of merging supermassive black holes. Astronomers have identified a bumper crop of dual…
Scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration report the first joint detection of gravitational waves with both the LIGO and Virgo detectors….
New research on black holes believed to have formed shortly after the Big Bang, might explain how gold, platinum and uranium are created. A long-standing…
After observing a nearby galaxy from which ultraviolet light is escaping, astronomers hypothesize that black holes may have punctured darkened galaxies and allowed light to…
Hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine contradict a long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black holes. Z, the most…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope has revealed a previously unknown way to fuel supermassive black holes. Observations of “Jellyfish galaxies” show a new way to fuel…
A new multi-wavelength study of a pair of colliding galaxies has revealed the cause of a supermassive black hole’s case of “indigestion.” The new research…
A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics reveal that hidden dimensions – as predicted by string theory – could influence…
Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a team of astronomers has made the first detection of orbital motion in a pair of supermassive black…
By successfully simulated the conditions around black holes using a specially designed water bath, a team of astronomers has made a significant leap forward in…
Using observations from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), scientists at the University of Texas San Antonio found that the dust surrounding active, ravenous…
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, demonstrating that a new window in…
By comparing theoretical models to Chandra surveys and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers have found evidence that the very earliest supermassive black holes in…
A team of astronomers has put a basic principle of black holes to the test, showing that matter completely vanishes when pulled in. Their results…
Using data from the Large Binocular Telescope and NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, astronomers watched as a dying star was likely reborn as a…
In a newly published study led by Australian National University, astrophysicists reveal how most of the antimatter in the Milky Way forms. Antimatter is material…
A newly published Harvard study on similar galaxies whose central active black hole nucleus is obscured has concluded that accreting streams of material into the…
Astronomers have discovered a potential recoiling supermassive black hole (CXO J101527.2+625911). This recoiling black hole candidate is located about 3.9 billion light-years from Earth. Supermassive…