Stellar-mass black hole

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This composite image features X-ray and optical data of the LFBOT event AT 2024wpp. Image credit: NASA / CXC / UC Berkeley / Nayana et al. / Legacy Survey / DECaLS / BASS / MzLS / SAO / P. Edmonds / N. Wolk.

December 17, 2025

Using data gathered by a suite of space- and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered AT 2024wpp, the most…

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Black holes are the sources of the strongest gravitational fields that can be found today in the Universe and are ideal laboratories for testing Einstein’s theory of general relativity in the strong field regime. In his article, Professor Bambi shows that the possibility of an interstellar mission to send a small spacecraft to the nearest black hole, although very speculative and extremely challenging, is not completely unrealistic. Image credit: Cosimo Bambi, doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113142.

August 12, 2025

In a new paper published in the journal iScience, an astrophysicist from Fudan University discusses the possibility of…

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Astrophysicists Detect Gravitational Waves from Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date

July 16, 2025

Using twin detectors of NSF’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), astrophysicists with the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration have detected…

Record-Breaking Cosmic Burst Caused by Stellar-Mass Black Hole Shredding Its Companion

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Astrophysicists Detect Gravitational Waves from Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date