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Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: ...
Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has ...
An incredible object form by two colliding galaxies may be the site of a recently formed supermassive black hole.
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as gravitational waves.
As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...
Answer 17: A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in space. A meteor is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid ...
In a discovery that could change how we understand the universe, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum has ...
The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.
The Infinity Galaxy is a recent discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope’s COSMOS-Web survey, found in archival data.
Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...
"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.
The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.