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Study Points to Tight Supermassive Black Hole Binary in Markarian 501

Decades of radio imaging reveal a faint second jet consistent with a close pair now modeled on a 121-day orbit.

Quantum Gravity Model Embeds Inflation in Gravity, Sets Floor for Primordial Waves

Eccentric Orbit Confirmed in Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger GW200105

Magnetar ‘Chirp’ Identified in Superluminous Supernova as Short GRB Localized to Tidal-Stream Dwarf

Brightest Blue Cosmic Flash Linked to Black Hole Tearing Apart a Massive Star, Studies Find

JWST Confirms Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Traveling at About 1,000 km/s

LVK’s 2024 Black-Hole Mergers Now Tied to a Low-Mass, Fast-Spinning Subpopulation

SALT Marks 20 Years as South Africa Reaffirms Backing for a Global Science Anchor

Optica Study Demonstrates FROSTI, a Thermal Adaptive Optics System for LIGO

Wormhole Hypothesis Revives 2019 Wave Mystery as New Data Bolster Black‑Hole Physics

Peer-Reviewed GW250114 Analysis Confirms Kerr Black Holes and Hawking’s Area Law

LIGO’s Loudest Black-Hole Merger Confirms Hawking’s Area Theorem and Kerr Predictions

Clearest Gravitational-Wave Signal Lets LIGO Confirm Hawking's Area Law and Kerr Black Holes

JWST Detects Oldest Active Quasar and Direct-Collapse Black Hole Seed

LVK Confirms Record-Breaking 225-Solar-Mass Black Hole Merger

Record-Breaking 225-Solar-Mass Black Hole Merger Challenges Formation Models

Most Massive Black Hole Merger Confirmed by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Yields 225-Solar-Mass Remnant

Astronomers Detect First Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Through Star-Shredding Event

Astronomers Pinpoint Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Using Stellar Destruction Event

Physicists Propose Non-Singular Black Hole Models to Resolve Centuries-Old Paradox