‘Ultramassive’ black hole the size of 36 billion suns found in distant galaxy
You’ve heard of a supermassive black hole. Now, what about an “ultramassive” black hole? That descriptor is the…
The Trillion-Dollar Quest To Test Einstein
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration created a single image (top frame) of the supermassive black hole at…
The Universe’s First “Little Red Dots” May Be a New Kind of Star With a Black Hole Inside
By all rights, they shouldn’t exist. When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first opened its eyes to…
Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Caught Eating Star in NGC 6099
The newly-discovered intermediate-mass black hole, named NGC 6099 HLX-1, resides in a compact star cluster on the outskirts…
Scientists Found a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. Now Physics Has a Problem.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Over the past decade, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network has…
The most massive black hole merger ever seen
In a breathtaking leap for astrophysics, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has recorded the loudest roar ever heard across…
Extending the ARM of ATLAS computing
With data from the ongoing LHC Run 3 continuing to mount, and the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) expected to…
Astrophysicists Detect Gravitational Waves from Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date
Using twin detectors of NSF’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), astrophysicists with the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration have detected…