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James Webb Space Telescope spots a supermassive black hole in the early universe, much sooner after the Big Bang than scientists can explain

NASA's Webb telescope spotted an active supermassive black hole that existed 570 million years afte…

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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics discover three supermassive black holes merging together

The rare occurrence in the nearby universe indicates that small merging groups are ideal laborat…

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A stunning photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals 3 galaxies colliding

Galaxies merging together create starbursts and supermassive black hole collisions. The new James W…

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NASA image may show first-ever 'rogue' supermassive black hole, leaving a trail of newborn stars in its wake

A supermassive black hole may have been kicked out of its galaxy after two other black holes moved …

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Black holes can produce light when they collide, new research shows — astronomers just saw the first-ever 'flare' from a spacetime-bending merger

Two black holes crashed together and merged within a disk of hot matter orbiting another larger bla…

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An experiment that reaches across our galaxy has detected the first signs of a possible 'sea' of ripples in space-time

Supermassive black holes merging in distant galaxies could be creating a background hum of gravitat…

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A rare trio of supermassive black holes spotted as three galaxies collide

Located a billion light years away from Earth, the collision doesn't pose any threat to th…

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A pair of supermassive black holes are stuck in a collision between galaxies. Astronomers caught the chaos on camera.

"This galaxy is so complex that we could never know what is going on inside it without these detail…

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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…

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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…

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This revolutionary discovery could help scientists see black holes for the first time

Not even light can escape black holes, which means they're invisible to any of the instruments astr…

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The first discovery of 2 colliding black holes just fundamentally changed our perception of the universe

Now, that is a whopping, enormous amount of energy. To compare, theoretical physicist Luboš Motl ca…

Jessica Orwig   


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Renault reportedly plans to restart Nissan merger talks in bid to buy out Fiat-Chrysler

French automaker Renault is planning to restart merger talks with Japanese carmaker Nissan in the n…

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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…

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Astronomers are baffled after spotting strange cosmic flares that have 10 billion times more power than the sun

Astronomers spotted at least 14 irregular and highly energetic bursts in deep space, each lasting o…

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