Flashes of gravitationally lensed starlight could act as cosmic lighthouses revealing the presence of binary supermassive ...

In this system, a supermassive black hole could have captured the binary black holes, gradually drawing them closer through gravitational interactions. This theory is backed by the way the binary ...

Supermassive black holes rarely travel alone. Most large galaxies hide one at the center, and when galaxies collide, the two ...

Researchers at Oxford University and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) are ...

Binary black hole systems are turning out to produce some of the most important data in modern astronomy. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center A new study in the scientific journal Nuclear ...

Hidden deep within the Milky Way, a surprising discovery has been made: over 100 black holes tucked away in the Palomar 5 stellar stream. For years, scientists speculated about their existence, but it ...

Neutron stars are ultra-dense remnants of massive stars that collapsed after supernova explosions and are made up mostly of ...

Figure showing sections through marginal surfaces in a ‘snapshot’ of the researchers’ simulation. The apparent horizons are the three dark lines (the newly formed one is outside and contains the two ...

They pull us in, literally and figuratively. Black holes — remnants of collapsed stars — have immense mass that curves spacetime so all paths lead inward. They also capture the popular imagination as ...

A pair of distant cosmic black hole mergers, measured just one month apart in late 2024, is improving how scientists understand the nature and evolution of the most violent deep-space collisions in ...

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