Scientists may have solved the mystery of an "impossible" merger between two black holes so massive and fast-spinning that ...

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In 2023, astronomers observed a black hole collision that defied established theories. Two enormous black holes spun into ...

Astronomers from the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) and colleagues have determined how ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. Their detectors captured the gravitational waves created by the violent crash of two immense black ...

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion ...

A newly observed gravitational wave event from the collision of two massive, rapidly spinning black holes forces scientists to reconsider how these cosmic giants are born and grow.

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Researchers detect the clearest black hole signal to date, enabling tests of Hawking's area theorem and advancing ...

But most of the gold on Earth isn’t in our hands; it’s deep underground. During the planet’s formation, heavy elements like gold and platinum sank toward the molten iron core. Geologists estimate that ...