Mergers
How Did Supermassive Black Holes Get So Big, So Early? They Might Have Had a Head Start
Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large galaxies have one…
1 week ago
The Aftermath of a Neutron Star Collision Resembles the Conditions in the Early Universe
Neutron stars are extraordinarily dense objects, the densest in the Universe. They pack a lot of matter into a small…
3 weeks ago
The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Might Have Formed 9 Billion Years Ago
Large galaxies like ours are hosts to Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs.) They can be so massive that they resist comprehension,…
2 months ago