Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

Most theories describe the singularity of black hole as a particularly brutal end, but a new study suggests this ...

Scientists have discovered an extraordinarily massive black hole weighing an astounding 36 billion solar masses, challenging ...

New theory posits black holes may transition into ‘white holes’, ejecting matter and potentially even time itself, back into ...

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The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive ...

An illustration of gravitational waves rippling away from two merging black holes (Image credit: NASA Goddard) Measuring the imprint To determine whether the memory effect could be detected, the ...

Only black holes have a higher mass density ... They trained a neural network to fully characterize systems of merging neutron stars in about a second, compared to about an hour for the fastest ...

There have now been more than 250 detections 3. These are mainly of waves from merging black holes, but also of waves from mergers of two neutron stars, or of a black hole merging with a neutron star.

A team of astronomers has found the first binary star system, D9, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Previously, scientists thought such systems couldn’t exist in this turbulent region.

“Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are found at the centre of every massive ... One possible reason is a process called “scouring," which happens when two massive galaxies merge. “In this process, the ...