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supermassive black hole
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Possible Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Discovered Near Milky Way’s Core
At a Glance A star cluster close to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (SgrA*) at the center…
Can We Destroy Black Holes?
Assume a black hole is even coming our way, or perhaps our planet happens to approach one, and…
What Would You See If You Fell Into a Black Hole?
This is all hypothetical, of course, but imagine you’re about to fall into a black hole. What would…
Astronomers “Hear” Gravitational Waves Through the First-Ever Detection of a “Celestial Hum”
Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting the cosmic hum of gravitational waves generated by black hole…
Using a detector the size of a galaxy, astronomers find strongest evidence yet for gravitational waves from supermassive black hole pairs
OzGrav / Swinburne / Carl Knox Daniel Reardon, Swinburne University of Technology and Andrew Zic, CSIRO When black…