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Black hole merger event

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Watch two black holes merge and zoom across galaxy

When a pair of black holes merge, the resulting larger black hole can be sent hurtling away at extraordinary speeds – and now astronomers have seen it happen.

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Black hole

Space

Two black holes merged to form a huge one moving at incredible speeds

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This image show stars orbiting very close to Sgr A* (centre), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. They were obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on ESO???s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at the end of March 2021.

Space

We’ve seen our galaxy’s huge black hole more clearly than ever before

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The IXPE mission

Space

NASA is launching X-ray telescope to study the science of black holes

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Close-up view of the two bright galactic nuclei, each housing a supermassive black hole, in NGC 7727, a galaxy located 89 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. Each nucleus consists of a dense group of stars with a supermassive black hole at its centre. The two black holes are on a collision course and form the closest pair of supermassive black holes found to date. It is also the pair with the smallest separation between two supermassive black holes ??? observed just 1600 light-years apart in the sky.???? The image was taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO???s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.

Space

A pair of nearby supermassive black holes are heading for a collision

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This artistic impression shows two black holes that are spiralling towards each other and will eventually coalesce.

Space

Merging black holes may create bubbles that could swallow the universe

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How you can get involved with the hunt for gravitational waves

Space

How you can get involved with the hunt for gravitational waves

Regulars

Lunar craters could reveal past collisions with ancient black holes

Space

Lunar craters could reveal past collisions with ancient black holes

Features

The black hole paradox that thwarts our understanding of reality

Physics

The black hole paradox that thwarts our understanding of reality

Features

Artist's impression of a black hole in space

Space

Black holes just got much more complicated thanks to quantum pressure

Black holes were once thought not to have pressure, but a new set of quantum calculations has found that they may have some at their edges, which was completely unexpected

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Space

Black holes with magnetic field ‘hair’ shed it in loops of hot plasma

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X-rays can echo and bend around the back of supermassive black holes

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Space

Stars sped up by black holes may outshine supernovae when they collide

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Space

The eternal debate about the eternal inflation of the universe

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