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Millions of black holes are speeding around the Milky Way after being kicked at birth
Travelling at speeds greater than 70 kilometers per second — that’s 252,000 kilometers per hou…
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Gravitational waves were not the only first-ever finding today
"Having gravitational waves as a tool will enable us to study black holes, and black holes hold the…
Sean Kane
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Watch 2 supermassive black holes dance around each other in a mesmerizing NASA animation
Black holes are encircled by a glowing disk of hot gas. When one black hole approaches another, its…
Aylin Woodward
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Newly discovered gravitational waves hint that 'cities' of black holes may lurk in space
LIGO may also eventually aid in listening to the parts of the universe that were created shortly af…
Dave Mosher
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Newfound Super-Bright Neutron Star Baffles Scientists And Should Not Exist
Like black holes, neutron stars form as a star that is more massive than our sun collapses in on it…
Jessica Orwig
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This black hole collision produced the first gravitational waves ever heard
Physicists just confirmed the first detection in a signal that came from a cataclysmic collision be…
Kelly Dickerson
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Astronomers using a NASA space telescope spotted the first signs of a planet beyond the Milky Way
If this planet exists, it's orbiting a dead star or a black hole and it only passes through Earth's…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Milky Way’s ‘quiet wimpy’ black hole is getting hungrier and brighter
The black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is normally benign. But, for the first…
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ISRO, NASA just spotted a black hole spinning so fast that it could be making space itself rotate
Those X-rays were caused by gas and dust falling into the black hole, which is about 10 time…
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A brilliant cosmic burst 100 times as bright as our galaxy came from 2 black holes circling each other, study finds
Scientists said the bright flare occurred after one of the black holes crashed through a gaseous di…
Chris Panella,Jessica Orwig
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A nearby black hole just erupted for the first time in 26 years and scientists are ecstatic
As the gas gets pulled in, it orbits around the black hole, forming a disc. The closer the gas gets…
Jessica Orwig
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How in the world can we 'hear' gravitational waves traveling from 1.3 billion light-years away?
Another way to think about it is to consider speech patterns. In the same way that tone of voice an…
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This collision was 50 times more powerful than all the stars in the universe combined
And if all this wasn't exciting enough, it's the first time astronomers have ever observed a binary…
Sarah Kramer
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Powerful phenomena are kicking stars out of our galaxy at speeds of over 1 million miles per hour
Rogue, or hypervelocity stars are moving so quickly they're leaving the Milky Way, and never coming…
FRASER CAIN
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Scientists have detected colliding black holes for the 2nd time - and it's going to revolutionize our perception of the universe
"Without sound you wouldn't detect all the life in the jungle," Stefano Vitale, Principal Investiga…