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Most Black Holes Spin Rapidly. This one… Doesn’t

Black holes. They used to be theoretical, up until the first one was found and confirmed back in...

Gaia Could Detect Free-Floating Black Holes Passing Near Stars in the Milky Way

The thing with black holes is they’re hard to see. Typically we can only detect their presence when...

We Could Discover new Kinds of Particles Around Black Holes Through Gravitational Waves

On February 11th, 2016, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the detection of gravitational waves (GW)...

Hubble Pins Down the Mass of a Potential Free-Floating Black Hole That’s 5,000 Light-Years Away

Earlier this year, astronomers used microlensing and the Hubble Space Telescope to detect, for the first time, a rogue...

A new Quantum Technique Could Enable Telescopes the Size of Planet Earth

There’s a revolution underway in astronomy. In fact, you might say there are several. In the past...

The Building Blocks for Supermassive Black Holes are Found in Dwarf Galaxies

Did this grow from the merger of little black holes to a giant supermassive object called Sagittarius A*? The...

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