scorecard

You Searched For "binary black holes" and got 20 results


Sort By:


Business Insider Latest Story Image
2 mins read

Case of the missing stars: At least 800 stars have quietly disappeared in the last 70 years, say scientists

Based off of the little sense we’ve made of the hot mess that is the cosmos, there are two ways sta…

Business Insider Latest Story Image
1 min read

Hidden third stars could be making binary star system members eat each other, scientists find

Scientists speculate that the concealed third star in Be star systems might gradually compel the mo…

Business Insider Latest Story Image
2 mins read

Millions of black holes are speeding around the Milky Way after being kicked at birth

Travelling at speeds greater than 70 kilometers per second — that’s 252,000 kilometers per hou…

Business Insider Latest Story Image
3 mins read

A brilliant cosmic burst 100 times as bright as our galaxy came from 2 black holes circling each other, study finds

Scientists said the bright flare occurred after one of the black holes crashed through a gaseous di…

Chris Panella,Jessica Orwig   


Business Insider Latest Story Image
2 mins read

Watch 2 supermassive black holes dance around each other in a mesmerizing NASA animation

Black holes are encircled by a glowing disk of hot gas. When one black hole approaches another, its…

Aylin Woodward   


Business Insider Latest Story Image
3 mins read

Milky Way’s ‘quiet wimpy’ black hole is getting hungrier and brighter

The black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is normally benign. But, for the first…

Business Insider Latest Story Image
3 mins read

ISRO, NASA just spotted a black hole spinning so fast that it could be making space itself rotate

Those X-rays were caused by gas and dust falling into the black hole, which is about 10 time…

Business Insider Latest Story Image
2 mins read

An average neutron star is 1.4 times the mass of the Sun — but it’s no bigger than a city in size

On average, a neutron star has 1.4 times the density of the Sun. However, the Sun is more than…

Business Insider Latest Story Image
3 mins read

A star set to explode in 2083 will be the brightest object in Earth's sky as it dies

Over the next few decades, the star will brighten rapidly. Around 2083, all of the mass from V Sagi…

Business Insider Latest Story Image
6 mins read

Newly discovered gravitational waves hint that 'cities' of black holes may lurk in space

LIGO may also eventually aid in listening to the parts of the universe that were created shortly af…

Dave Mosher   


Business Insider Latest Story Image
2 mins read

Stephen Hawking's voice will be blasted into a black hole from a space station in a touching final memorial

Hawking's daughter Lucy described the music to accompany the physicist's words as a "beautiful and …

Alexandra Ma   


Business Insider Latest Story Image
2 mins read

This black hole collision produced the first gravitational waves ever heard

Physicists just confirmed the first detection in a signal that came from a cataclysmic collision be…

Kelly Dickerson   


Business Insider Latest Story Image
3 mins read

A nearby black hole just erupted for the first time in 26 years and scientists are ecstatic

As the gas gets pulled in, it orbits around the black hole, forming a disc. The closer the gas gets…

Jessica Orwig   


Business Insider Latest Story Image
4 mins read

Scientists have detected colliding black holes for the 2nd time - and it's going to revolutionize our perception of the universe

"Without sound you wouldn't detect all the life in the jungle," Stefano Vitale, Principal Investiga…

Ali Sundermier   


Business Insider Latest Story Image
3 mins read

'Vampire' stars could be using galactic henchmen to help feed on their companions

Type-Be stars, nicknamed "vampire" stars, are believed to strip the mass of a surrounding star. Now…

Hannah Getahun   


Business Insider Latest Story Image
3 mins read

Astronomers using a NASA space telescope spotted the first signs of a planet beyond the Milky Way

If this planet exists, it's orbiting a dead star or a black hole and it only passes through Earth's…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   


Business Insider Latest Story Image
2 mins read

Two dead stars are dancing around each other proving Einstein's theory right

A star that’s 1.27 times the mass of the Sun is dragging the fabric of space and time with it

Business Insider Latest Story Image
2 mins read

Gravitational waves were not the only first-ever finding today

"Having gravitational waves as a tool will enable us to study black holes, and black holes hold the…

Sean Kane   


Business Insider Latest Story Image
9 mins read

Social media platforms deny but content creators and tracking websites confirm that shadowbanning or silent censorship is real

Elon Musk joked about ‘shadowbanning’ first and now content creators confirm that it is real; here …

Business Insider Latest Story Image
2 mins read

How in the world can we 'hear' gravitational waves traveling from 1.3 billion light-years away?

Another way to think about it is to consider speech patterns. In the same way that tone of voice an…