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The third event was produced by the merger of two black holes, 31 and 19 times as massive as the Sun, forming a larger black hole of about 49 solar masses.

LIGO detects gravitational waves for a third time

The new detection occurred on January 4 this year during the ongoing second observing run of the Advanced LIGO detectors...

2 Jun 2017 10:07 AM IST

This is an artist impression of galaxy at the center of the Phoenix Cluster. (Photo: phys.org)

Black hole discovered fuelling star formation

The Phoenix cluster is an enormous accumulation of about 1,000 galaxies, located 5.7 billion light years from Earth.

16 Feb 2017 11:22 AM IST

Theoretical astronomy tells us that when a black hole absorbs matter, a brief flash of light is visible as depicted in this artists rendering (Photo: AFP)

Astronomers works to puzzle out black hole

The targeted black hole is hidden in plain sight, lurking in the centre of the Milky Way in a region called Sagittarius...

13 April 2017 7:59 AM IST

An illustration of the thick ring of dust that can obscure the energetic processes that occur near active black hole. (Photo: NASA)

Reseachers find cool dust around active black holes

Most, if not all, large galaxies contain a supermassive black hole at their centers.

14 Jun 2017 3:53 PM IST