How LIGO Discovered Gravity Waves
LIGO is back online with upgrades. And it’s being enhanced by a network of pulsars.
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Tag: black holes
Dark Energy May Beam From Black Holes
If confirmed, the emission of dark matter by black holes is a revolution in astronomy and would redefine what a black hole really is.
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Two Giant Black Holes Spiral Toward Collision
A supermassive black hole 9 billion light-years away appears to have a companion black hole orbiting around it. As the orbit shrinks, the pair gets closer to merging.
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Einstein Proven Right (Again): Astronomers See X-Rays and Light Bending Around Black Hole
Albert Einstein (1879 -1955) “predicted that the gravitational pull of black holes were so strong that they should bend light right around them.”
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Dr. Andrea Ghez Wins Nobel Prize for Physics!
Astrophysicist Professor Andrea M. Ghez of the Department of Astronomy of UCLA became only the fourth woman ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics this past Thursday for her work proving the existence of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
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