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2:11pm, 2nd May, 2019

LIGO and Virgo recap smashups, including hints of a black hole eating a neutron star

Scientists work in the LIGO Hanford control room. (Caltech / MIT / LIGO Lab Photo / C. Gray) The science teams for the , or LIGO, and Europe’s today laid out the details of their recent detections, including a crash between neutron stars, three black...

LIGO and Virgo recap smashups, including hints of a neutron star hitting a black hole

1:07pm, 2nd May, 2019

Space

LIGO and Virgo recap smashups, including hints of a neutron star hitting a black hole

Scientists work in the LIGO Hanford control room. (Caltech / MIT / LIGO Lab Photo / C. Gray) The science teams for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, and Europe’s Virgo detector today laid out the details of their recen...

Scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a galaxy’s monster black hole

10:50am, 10th April, 2019

Space

Scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a galaxy’s monster black hole

This image from the Event Horizon Telescope shows the supermassive black hole in the elliptical galaxy M87, surrounded by superheated material. (EHT Collaboration) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Scientists today shared the first picture to show the immediate sur...

Scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a galaxy’s supermassive black hole

8:42am, 10th April, 2019

Space

Scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a galaxy’s supermassive black hole

This image from the Event Horizon Telescope shows the supermassive black hole in the elliptical galaxy M87, surrounded by superheated material. (EHT Collaboration) WASHINGTON — Scientists shared the first picture to show the immediate surroundings of...

Watch scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole

10:03pm, 9th April, 2019

Space

Watch scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole

A computer simulation shows the expected appearance of the accretion disk surrounding a black hole, as seen in radio wavelengths. The left side of the image is brighter than the right side due to the Doppler beaming effect: Light emitted from materia...

Philosophy: What exactly is a black hole?

11:34am, 14th February, 2019

Physics

Philosophy: What exactly is a black hole?

(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) What is a black hole? In an article that has just appeared in the journal Nature Astronomy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich philosopher Erik Curiel shows that physicists use different definitio...

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LIGO and Virgo recap smashups, including hints of a black hole eating a neutron star

LIGO and Virgo recap smashups, including hints of a neutron star hitting a black hole

Scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a galaxy’s monster black hole

Scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a galaxy’s supermassive black hole

Watch scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole

Philosophy: What exactly is a black hole?

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