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Scientists have detected the largest black hole merger yet. What it is and why it matters
It was a bump in the night. A big one.On Nov. 23, 2023, waves from a colossal merger of two black holes reached Earth and were picked up by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration, a group that detects these sort of mergers through gravitational waves.
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.
A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge computing. Scientists have used a powerful neural network trained with ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...
In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.
These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...
Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...
A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before seen.
The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
Deep within the Milky Way’s core, researchers have uncovered cold gas clouds racing through a superheated galactic wind.
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