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Violent black hole collisions may create black hole 'morsels' no larger than an asteroid — and these bizarre objects could ...
An international team of astronomers using NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding ...
The scenario closest to the observations, the researchers determined, involved a massive dying star and a compact object such ...
The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.
Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with them. A recent discovery of one of the strangest supernovas ever observed ...
“Our analysis shows that the blast was sparked by a catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, and is the strongest evidence to date that such close interactions can actually detonate a star, ...
"We're now entering an era where we can automatically catch these rare events as they happen, not just after the fact." ...
The spacecraft, no heavier than a gram and propelled to a third of the speed of light by lasers on Earth, would gather ...