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Scientists detect biggest merger of two black holes
The event is the most massive black hole merger ever recorded by gravitational wave detectors and has forced physicists to rethink their models of how the enormous objects form. The signal was recorded when it hit detectors on Earth sensitive enough to detect shudders in space-time thousands of times smaller than the width of a proton.
But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...
"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...
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Supermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns – but their growth has slowed as the universe agedBlack holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most gigantic ones, known as "supermassive" black holes, can weigh ...
Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...
ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...
(Left) the relatively quiet black hole at the heart of the Milky Way (Right) the violent and turbulent supermassive ...
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