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Pulsar timing array gravitational-wave searches have set the first mass limits on supermassive black hole pairs at cosmic ...

A dark, mysterious object has appeared at the outer edges of our Solar System. It looks like the remnants of a dying star.

Astrophysicists think that the supermassive black holes (SMBH) we see in the modern universe are the result of a long, ...

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Black holes sometimes merge. But could 1 split into 2 or more? A new study explores the conditions that might allow it, ...

Scientists have discovered a possible loophole in the laws that normally prevent black holes from splitting apart, suggesting that extremely fast-spinning black holes might divide into two. The ...

After more than two decades of observing some of the universe's most powerful explosions, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift ...

An apparently modest cosmic explosion produced one of the brightest afterglows astronomers have seen in two decades.

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Astronomers have uncovered that the peculiar Treble Clef formation stems from a black hole eruption and the merger of two ...