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Tag: Black Holes (Space)

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Happy 10th Birthday to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Now Drop Dead.

September 10, 2025September 10, 2025DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on Happy 10th Birthday to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Now Drop Dead.

Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology hasn’t been the same since, and it might not stay that way much longer.

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‘Ultrahigh Energy’ Neutrino Found With a Telescope Under the Sea

February 12, 2025February 12, 2025Katrina MillerComments Off on ‘Ultrahigh Energy’ Neutrino Found With a Telescope Under the Sea

It’s the most energetic particle of its kind ever discovered, and scientists have no idea where it came from.

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A Solstice of the Soul

December 20, 2024DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on A Solstice of the Soul

For his next trick, your cosmic correspondent for the past quarter-century will (try to) retire.

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Can Axions Save the Universe?

November 1, 2024Dennis Overbye and Katrina MillerComments Off on Can Axions Save the Universe?

The hunt for dark matter is shifting from particles to waves named after a laundry detergent.

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Two Black Holes are Giving the Cosmos a Fright

October 30, 2024October 30, 2024DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on Two Black Holes are Giving the Cosmos a Fright

The ghosts of stars are up to their usual mischief.

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Astronomers Spot a Black Hole with a Cosmic Wingspan

September 25, 2024September 25, 2024DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on Astronomers Spot a Black Hole with a Cosmic Wingspan

Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies.

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A Famous Black Hole Gets a Second Look From Astronomers

January 24, 2024DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on A Famous Black Hole Gets a Second Look From Astronomers

Repeated studies of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy Messier 87 confirm that it continues to act as Einstein’s theory predicted it would.

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How to Create a Black Hole Out of Thin Air

December 24, 2023December 25, 2023DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on How to Create a Black Hole Out of Thin Air

Black holes were thought to arise from the collapse of dead stars. But a Webb telescope image showing the early universe hints at an alternative pathway.

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The Cosmos Is Thrumming With Gravitational Waves, Astronomers Find

June 28, 2023June 29, 2023Katrina MillerComments Off on The Cosmos Is Thrumming With Gravitational Waves, Astronomers Find

Radio telescopes around the world picked up a telltale hum reverberating across the cosmos, most likely from supermassive black holes merging in the early universe.

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The Biggest Explosion in the Cosmos Just Keeps Going

May 12, 2023May 12, 2023DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on The Biggest Explosion in the Cosmos Just Keeps Going

For three years, telescopes have monitored “one of the most luminous” events ever: a supermassive black hole consuming a gigantic cloud of interstellar gas.

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