Black holes
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Discover three Salish asterisms lighting up winter skies and the stories behind them, as UBC researcher Dr. Shandin Pete shares Indigenous astronomical knowledge.
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‘Loudest’ black hole ever detected, 10 years after Nobel-winning discovery
UBC researchers help detect the loudest black hole merger ever recorded, marking a decade since the first gravitational wave discovery and pushing the boundaries of astrophysics.
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New gravitational wave signal helps fill the ‘mass gap’ between neutron stars and black holes
A collaboration of researchers including UBC scientists have observed gravitational waves from the collision of what is most likely a neutron star and an object likely to be a light black hole, 650 million light-years from Earth.
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Time machines and black holes on the agenda at quantum gravity meeting
A theory of everything, that works at a cosmic and quantum level, has eluded researchers for years.
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UBC researchers help detect the most massive black hole collision ever observed
An international team of researchers, including scientists with the University of British Columbia’s gravitational wave astrophysics group, has detected a signal from what may be the most massive black hole merger yet observed.
