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Scientists Claim First Detection of Black Hole Event-Horizon 'Direct Wave'

If validated, the isolated direct wave would give astronomers a new way to measure the black hole’s near-horizon rotation and to test general relativity.

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2w ago

Gravitational-Wave Study Says the Biggest Black Holes Grow Through Repeat Mergers

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Astronomers Measure Cygnus X-1’s ‘Dancing’ Black Hole Jets at 10,000 Suns of Power

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2mo ago

Study Points to Tight Supermassive Black Hole Binary in Markarian 501

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3mo ago

Eccentric Orbit Confirmed in Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger GW200105

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3mo ago

LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Unveil Catalog That More Than Doubles Gravitational-Wave Detections

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4mo ago

Distant Quasar Defies Models With 13× Eddington Growth and Powerful Jets

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4mo ago

Science Study Details Andromeda Star’s Disappearance, Pointing to Black Hole Birth

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4mo ago

Black Hole’s Delayed Tidal Disruption Jet Keeps Surging, Now 50× Brighter

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4mo ago

Star-Shredding Black Hole’s Radio Jet Still Surging, With Peak Predicted Around 2027

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4mo ago

Peer-Reviewed Model Ties 2023 Ultra‑High‑Energy Neutrino to Exploding Primordial Black Hole

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4mo ago

EHT Pinpoints Likely Base of M87’s 3,000-Light-Year Jet Near Black Hole

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5mo ago

Early-Universe Quasar Defies Models With 13 Times the Eddington Limit, Bright X-Rays and a Radio Jet

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5mo ago

Supermassive Black Hole in J1007+3540 Restarts Jets After 100 Million Years

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5mo ago

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Black Holes Shrouded in Gas, Nature Study Finds

Black Holes

Scientists Claim First Detection of Black Hole Event-Horizon 'Direct Wave'

Astronomers Find Hot Wind Carving Cone from Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

JWST Weighs Dormant Black Hole 10 Billion Light-Years From Earth

Scientists Detect Wind From Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

Supermassive Black Hole Dust Rings Could Spawn Millions of Planets

JWST Measures 50‑Million‑Solar‑Mass Black Hole That Outweighs Its Host

Gravitational-Wave Study Says the Biggest Black Holes Grow Through Repeat Mergers

Astronomers Measure Cygnus X-1’s ‘Dancing’ Black Hole Jets at 10,000 Suns of Power

Study Points to Tight Supermassive Black Hole Binary in Markarian 501

Eccentric Orbit Confirmed in Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger GW200105

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LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Unveil Catalog That More Than Doubles Gravitational-Wave Detections

Distant Quasar Defies Models With 13× Eddington Growth and Powerful Jets

Science Study Details Andromeda Star’s Disappearance, Pointing to Black Hole Birth

Black Hole’s Delayed Tidal Disruption Jet Keeps Surging, Now 50× Brighter

Star-Shredding Black Hole’s Radio Jet Still Surging, With Peak Predicted Around 2027

Peer-Reviewed Model Ties 2023 Ultra‑High‑Energy Neutrino to Exploding Primordial Black Hole

EHT Pinpoints Likely Base of M87’s 3,000-Light-Year Jet Near Black Hole

Early-Universe Quasar Defies Models With 13 Times the Eddington Limit, Bright X-Rays and a Radio Jet

Supermassive Black Hole in J1007+3540 Restarts Jets After 100 Million Years

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Black Holes Shrouded in Gas, Nature Study Finds

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