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Small black holes may play ‘hide-and-seek’ with elusive supermassive black hole pairs

When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Drawing of a supermassive black hole binary. | Source: NASA Binary pairings of small black holes could be used by astronomers in a cosmic game of hide-and-seek to hunt for much larger, but more elusive, supermassive black hole binaries.… Read More »

Fast-spinning dead stars may reveal dark matter secrets

When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration shows a rapidly spinning neutron star surrounded by a blue magnetic field emitting jets of radio waves. | Credit: NASA Goddard/Walt Feimer Scientists plan to use dead star “clocks” to shed light on the universe’s most mysterious… Read More »