• binary black hole (BBH), or black hole binary, is an astronomical object consisting of two black holes in close orbit around each other. Like black holes...
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  • black hole ever found, estimated at 66 billion solar masses) 3C 371 4C +37.11 (this radio galaxy is believed to have binary supermassive black holes) AP...
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    A stellar black hole (or stellar-mass black hole) is a black hole formed by the gravitational collapse of a star. They have masses ranging from about...
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  • list of known black holes that are close to the Solar System. It is thought that most black holes are solitary, but black holes in binary or larger systems...
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    also the first observation of a binary black hole merger, demonstrating both the existence of binary stellar-mass black hole systems and the fact that such...
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    Benjamin F. (2021-03-01). "The Wolf–Rayet + Black Hole Binary NGC 300 X-1: What is the Mass of the Black Hole?". The Astrophysical Journal. 910 (1): 74...
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    all massive galaxies. In some galaxies, there are even binary systems of supermassive black holes (see the OJ 287 system.) Unambiguous dynamical evidence...
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    In this way, astronomers have identified numerous stellar black hole candidates in binary systems and established that the radio source known as Sagittarius...
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    A supermassive black hole (SMBH or sometimes SBH) is the largest type of black hole, with its mass being on the order of hundreds of thousands, or millions...
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    An intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) is a class of black hole with mass in the range of one hundred to one hundred thousand (102–105) solar masses: significantly...
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    M33 X-7 (category Stellar black holes)
    is a black hole binary system in the Triangulum Galaxy. The system is made up of a stellar-mass black hole and a companion star. The black hole in M33...
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    Gaia BH3 (category Stellar black holes)
    4318465066420528000) is a binary system consisting of a metal-poor giant star with spectral type G and a stellar-mass black hole. Gaia BH3 is located 1926...
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    produced by cataclysmic events such as the merger of binary black holes, the coalescence of binary neutron stars, supernova explosions and processes including...
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    binaries are Sirius, and Cygnus X-1 (Cygnus X-1 being a well-known black hole). Binary stars are also common as the nuclei of many planetary nebulae, and...
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    Microquasars (radio-jet X-ray binaries that can house either a neutron star or a black hole) A low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) is a binary star system where one...
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  • In gravitational wave astronomy, a golden binary is a binary black hole collision event whose inspiral and ringdown phases have been measured accurately...
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  • Kerr metric (redirect from Kerr black hole)
    geometry of empty spacetime around a rotating uncharged axially symmetric black hole with a quasispherical event horizon. The Kerr metric is an exact solution...
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    circular published in the public alerts tracker. The first O3/2019 binary black hole detection alert was broadcast on 8 April 2019. A significant percentage...
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    com/2015/08/31/us/double-black-hole-nasa-hubble-feat/ http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/science-supermassive-binary-black-hole-markarian231-03180.html...
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    Gaia BH1 (category Stellar black holes)
    DR3 4373465352415301632) is a binary system consisting of a G-type main-sequence star and a likely stellar-mass black hole, located about 1,560 light-years...
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    black holes and subsequent ringdown of the resulting single black hole. The observations demonstrated the existence of binary stellar-mass black hole...
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  • problem. In the late 1990s, the Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance successfully simulated a head-on binary black hole collision. As a post-processing...
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  • A black hole bomb is the name given to a physical effect utilizing how a bosonic field impinging on a rotating black hole can be amplified through superradiant...
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  • Abbott, B.; et al. (2016). "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger". Physical Review Letters. 116 (6): 061102. arXiv:1602.03837...
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    GW190521 (category Intermediate-mass black holes)
    J.; et al. (2020). "Candidate Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Binary Black Hole Merger Gravitational-Wave Event S190521g" (PDF). Physical Review Letters...
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  • B.P.; et al. (2016). "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger". Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (6): 061102. arXiv:1602.03837. Bibcode:2016PhRvL...
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  • observations as the first binary with a stellar black hole candidate 1972 — Stephen Hawking proves that the area of a classical black hole's event horizon cannot...
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    detection on 14 September 2015, observing gravitational waves from a binary black hole. A second gravitational wave was detected on 26 December 2015 and...
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    independent unresolved gravitational-wave sources, like supermassive black-hole binaries. Detecting the gravitational wave background can provide information...
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    massive black holes at the centre of galaxies, massive black holes orbited by small compact objects, known as extreme mass ratio inspirals, binaries of compact...
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