Nov. 8, 2019 Scientists have reported detecting gravitational waves from 10 black hole mergers to date, but they are still trying to explain the origins of those mergers. The largest merger detected so far seems ...
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Oct. 31, 2019 New research shows that astronomers' search for black holes might have been missing an entire class of black holes that they didn't know existed. Astronomers offer a new way to search for ...
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Oct. 23, 2019 Whether wormholes exist is up for debate. But in a recent article, physicists describe a technique for detecting these ...
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Oct. 17, 2019 'Weather' in clusters of galaxies may explain a longstanding puzzle. Scientists have now used sophisticated simulations to show how powerful jets from supermassive black holes are disrupted ...
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Oct. 15, 2019 At the center of a galaxy called NGC 1068, a supermassive black hole hides within a thick doughnut-shaped cloud of dust and gas. When astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...
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Oct. 11, 2019 Astronomers have discovered that powerful winds driven by supermassive black holes in the centers of dwarf galaxies have a significant impact on the evolution of these galaxies by suppressing star ...
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Oct. 6, 2019 A titanic, expanding beam of energy sprang from close to the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way just 3.5 million years ago, sending a cone-shaped burst of radiation through both ...
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Oct. 3, 2019 Based on direct observations researchers have discovered massive filaments between galaxies in a proto-cluster, extending over more than 1 million parsecs and providing the fuel for intense formation ...
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Sep. 30, 2019 The 'special relationship' between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their hosts -- something astronomers and physicists have observed for quite a while -- can now be understood as a ...
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Sep. 26, 2019 A satellite searching space for new planets gave astronomers an unexpected glimpse at a black hole ripping a star to shreds. The milestone was reached with the help of a worldwide network of robotic ...
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Sep. 25, 2019 A new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our view, warping its surroundings as if viewed in a funhouse ...
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Sep. 18, 2019 Astronomers observed six mild-mannered LINER galaxies suddenly and surprisingly transforming into ravenous quasars -- home to the brightest of all active galactic nuclei. The team's observations ...
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Sep. 16, 2019 Astronomers have discovered the most massive neutron star to date, a rapidly spinning pulsar approximately 4,600 light-years from Earth. This record-breaking object is teetering on the edge of ...
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Sep. 11, 2019 The enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy is having an unusually large meal, and researchers don't know why. 'We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied ...
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Sep. 11, 2019 Astronomers have discovered one of the largest features ever observed in the center of the Milky Way: a pair of enormous radio-emitting bubbles that tower hundreds of light-years above and below the ...
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Sep. 11, 2019 Physicists have 'heard' the ringing of an infant black hole for the first time, and found that the pattern of this ringing does, in fact, predict the black hole's mass and spin -- more ...
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Sep. 10, 2019 Researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein's equations to model the growth of the ...
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Aug. 27, 2019 Astronomers have re-examined data from a gamma-ray burst spotted in August 2016 and found new evidence for a kilonova -- a turbocharged explosion that instantly forged several hundred planets' ...
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Aug. 20, 2019 Researchers show how a holographic tabletop experiment can be used to simulate the physics of a black hole. This work may lead the way to a more complete theory of quantum gravity that harmonizes ...
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Aug. 7, 2019 Gravitational wave researchers have developed a new model that could help astronomers track down the origin of heavy black hole systems in the ...
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