Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe. They can fling material outward at speeds …
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Science Unmasked
10 Years Ago, Gravitational Waves Changed Astronomy. A New Discovery Shows There’s More to Come
by Troy OakesTen years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves …
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Technology
Scientists Look to Black Holes to Know Exactly Where We Are in the Universe. But Smartphones and Wi-Fi Are Blocking the View
by Troy OakesThe scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are …
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Space
To Map the Vibration of the Universe, Astronomers Built a Detector the Size of the Galaxy
by Troy OakesUsing the largest gravitational wave detector ever made, we have confirmed earlier reports that the fabric of the …
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Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most renowned theoretical physicists, provided profound insights on a range of subjects, …
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Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don’t …
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Space
Polarized X-Rays Reveal Shape, Orientation of Extremely Hot Matter Around Black Hole
by Troy OakesResearchers’ recent observations of a stellar-mass black hole called Cygnus X-1 reveal new details about the configuration of …
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Using data from ESA’s Gaia astrometry mission, astronomers have identified the closest known black hole, less than 1,600 …
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The discovery of a so-called monster black hole that has about 12 times the Sun’s mass is detailed …
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For the first time, astronomers have encountered something exciting from archival data. The data from gravitational ripple observatories …