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Scientists have detected the largest black hole merger yet. Why it matters
Astronomers have revealed the largest black hole merger to date. This illustration shows how the merger would appear to our eyes if we could somehow travel in a spaceship for a closer look. ( SXS, the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) project )
Monster black hole merger is biggest ever seen
“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK Collaboration, a wider network of gravitational-wave detectors that encompasses LIGO, Virgo in Italy and KAGRA in Japan. It’s “about 50% more than the previous record holder”, he says.
A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge computing. Scientists have used a powerful neural network trained with ...
The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.
These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...
Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...
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