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JWST finds unusual black hole in center of Infinity Galaxy

Yale team discovers birth of supermassive black hole that could confirm how black holes are created

A Yale University-led team of scientists say they’ve made a groundbreaking discovery: the possible birth of a supermassive black hole. The newborn black hole is believed to have formed at the convergence of two galaxies that collided about 50 million years ago,

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To 'infinity' and beyond: Direct evidence of black hole birth found in galaxy named 'Infinity'

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" galaxy—two recently-collided galaxies that, together, look like the symbol for infinity.

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JWST finds unusual black hole in the center of the Infinity Galaxy: 'How can we make sense of this?'

Everything about the Infinity Galaxy, recently discovered by the JWST, is strange. One odd feature could be the 1st evidence of a "direct collapse" black hole.

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Astronomers Discover an Uncommon Way for Black Holes to Form

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

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Scientists record a black hole collision they weren’t sure was possible

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

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Astronomers detect most massive black hole collision to date

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

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Tiny ‘primordial’ black holes created in the Big Bang may have rapidly grown to supermassive sizes

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

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What's at the center of a black hole? Scientists have a sobering answer

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

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Q&A: Astrophysicist explains how black hole mergers and quasars help detect gravitational wave networks

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

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Milky Way's Core And Supermassive Black Hole Imagery Transformed Into Sound

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* has been sonified by SYSTEM Sounds. Credit: ...

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