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Simulations show how massive black holes could be formed by mergers

Phys.org - Wed 6 Nov 19

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. along with one in India and one in Hungary has created simulations that could explain how larger than expected black holes ...

Focus: Black Hole Assembly Line

APS Physics - Fri 1 Nov 19

Author(s): Mark BuchananA multiple merger scenario occurring in the centers of galaxies might explain some surprisingly large merger events recorded by gravitational-wave detectors.[Physics ...

Numerical evidence for the merger of MOTSs inside a binary black hole

Phys.org - Fri 1 Nov 19

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics have recently gathered strong numerical ...

We’ve found a black hole that may be smaller than any ever seen before

Newscientist - Thu 31 Oct 19

Astronomers have spotted a black hole just 3.3 times the mass of the sun about 10,000 light years away from Earth

Astronomers find a small black hole. Or a giant neutron star.

Cosmos Magazine - Thu 31 Oct 19

Discovery touches on two of the key questions in astrophysics.

Scientists may have discovered whole new class of black holes

Phys.org - Thu 31 Oct 19

Black holes are an important part of how astrophysicists make sense of the universe—so important that scientists have been trying to build a census of all the black holes in the Milky Way ...

Scientists may have discovered whole new class of black holes, SpaceDaily - Fri 1 Nov 19
Scientists may have discovered whole new class of black holes, ScienceDaily - Thu 31 Oct 19
Scientists may have discovered whole new class of black holes, Eurekalert - Thu 31 Oct 19

Astronomers may have discovered a new class of tiny black holes - CNET

CNET - Mon 4 Nov 19

A mysterious object, hidden behind a distant star, could be the lowest-mass black hole ever found.

See What a Black Hole Would Do to Earth with Online 'Collision Calculator'

SPACE.com - Fri 1 Nov 19

Have you ever wondered what would happen if Earth got gobbled up by a black hole (apart from everybody dying, of course)? Now you can find out, thanks to the online Black Hole Collision Calculator.

Astronomers Just Found the First Evidence That 'Mini Black Holes' Exist

Livescience - Fri 1 Nov 19

"It's always interesting to try to find things that can't be seen."

Scientists find a hidden black hole using new detection method

Engadget - Fri 1 Nov 19

How do you see something that's invisible? As reported by Space.com, a team of scientists has come up with a new way to spot dim black holes by looking at how they influence light ...

New class of black holes may exist, scientists say

FOXNews - Thu 31 Oct 19

An entirely new class of black holes that scientists were unaware of may exist, according to a study.

Scientists may have discovered a whole new class of black holes smaller than any known before

Daily Mail - Thu 31 Oct 19

Astrophysicists led from the Ohio State University analysed data collected by the so-called APOGEE project on the light coming from around 100,000 stars in the Milky Way to hunt for new black ...

Scientists Just Found a 'Needle in the Haystack' Black Hole Once Hidden From View

SPACE.com - Thu 31 Oct 19

Scientists have discovered a black hole that has been hiding in the dark.

Scientists may have discovered a whole new class of black holes

Newswise - Thu 31 Oct 19

Scientists have been trying to build a census of all the black holes in the Milky Way galaxy, but new research shows they might have been missing an entire class of black holes that they didn't ...