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Two black holes locked in cosmic dance near galaxy’s center are doomed to crash

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Two huge black holes are locked together by gravity as they inevitably spiral towards a collision, researchers have found in a new study. Researchers in a new study have spotted two supermassive black holes that whip around each other every two Earth years, on average, with respective masses each of hundreds of millions of times … Read more

2 Supermassive Black Holes Are Locked in The Tightest Orbit We’ve Seen Yet

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A dance of death is taking place at the heart of a galaxy in the distant Universe. Some 10 billion light-years away, two supermassive black holes are locked in an orbit so tight that they will collide with each other and form one much larger black hole in the relatively short time of just 10,000 … Read more

James Webb Space Telescope has locked onto guide star in crucial milestone

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The James Webb Space Telescope‘s key pointing instrument is working well in testing, according to two space agencies involved with the observatory’s commissioning work. The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS), a contribution from Honeywell on behalf of the Canadian Space Agency, successfully  “locked on” to a specific guide star in tracking mode on Sunday (Feb. 13), … Read more