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Manitoba researchers part of team working to unravel mystery of largest black hole merger ever detected
A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed the first ...
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What Happens to Science When Black Holes Break the Rules?
This is the most massive black hole binary we’ve observed through gravitational waves, and it presents a real challenge to ...
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Two monster black holes just collided — it’s so massive, it shouldn’t exist
Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...
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Gravitational waves reveal most massive black hole merger ever detected — one 'forbidden' by current models
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...
What's at the center of a black hole? Scientists have a sobering answer
But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...
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These supermassive black holes are cozying up close together
The binary black holes are the closest together ever observed in multiple wavelengths. ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); M. Weiss (NRAO/AUI/NSF) These are hungry black holes as well, as both members of ...
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Cracking! Some binary black holes may roll around each other in egg ...
When binary neutron stars or black holes swirl around each other, they constantly emit gravitational waves, which carry energy away from the system in the form of angular momentum.
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Scientists warn: Two black holes set to collide, as tiny versions pass through our homes
Scientists have made a terrifying discovery: two black holes are on a collision course, set to merge into a massive hole that ...