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Japan's Suzaku satellite shows how all bets are off around Cygnus X-1
Greenbelt :: MD :: USA | 7 days ago
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This month, the Vermillion bird of the South which is currently flying 550 km above Earth meets an astronomical swan some 6,000 light-years away. In Eastern mythology, the Vermillion bird of the South represents fire it is a spirit creature renowned
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Universe`s rate of expansion measured using black holes
Noida :: India | 25 days ago
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Scientists have developed a method to measure the rate of the universe's expansion using certain types of active black holes that lie at the center of many galaxies. A few years ago, researchers revealed that the universe is expanding at a much
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Signs of star formation close to supermassive black hole detected
Alma :: Canada | 1 month ago
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If confirmed, this would be the first time that star formation was observed so close to the galactic center. The center of our galaxy, 27,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, is home to a monstrous black hole with a
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Black Hole Shows A Planet Who's Boss
Tehrān :: Iran | 1 month ago
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That's a black hole sucking a planet apart like a galactic gobstopper, a sight witnessed by scientists who were using a massive "integral space telescope" from the European Space Agency to observe the galaxy NGC 4845...Now, we're not scientists, and
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Green pea galaxies could help understand formation of early universe
Noida :: India | 1 month ago
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Reionization occurred a few hundred million years after the Big Bang as the first stars were turning on and forming the first galaxies. During this period, the space between the galaxies changed from an opaque, neutral fog to a transparent charged
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Planet-eater's sudden lunch spotted
Warsaw :: Poland | 1 month ago
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The feeding happened in galaxy NGC 4845, 47 million light-years away, and was witnessed by ESA's Integral space observatory and other star-watching stations. A sudden bright X-ray flare coming from its center in January 2011 and subsiding over the
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Black hole wakes for a planet-sized snack
Warsaw :: Poland | 1 month ago
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They spotted a light flare coming from a black hole in the centre of the NGC 4845 galaxy, which has a mass more than 300,000 greater than the Sun and had been dormant for more than 30 years, the university said in a statement on Tuesday. Matter-
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How our galaxy might be surrounded by 2,000 rogue black holes
London :: United Kingdom | 1 month ago
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1 April 2013 The Milky Way could be surrounded by as many as 2,000 rogue black holes ejected into deep space as it formed over billions of years, researchers have revealed. A team from the University of California, Santa Cruz, ran computer
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Don't freak out, but our galaxy might be surrounded by 2,000 rogue black holes
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Galaxies and their central supermassive black holes grew in tandem, the result of countless collisions and mergers between ancient, smaller galaxies. But galaxies sometimes merged without combining their black holes, ejecting some of these objects
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Outcast black holes live on the edge of our galaxy
Noida :: India | 1 month ago
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As many as 2000 black holes kicked away from their homes are now living on the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, used new computer simulations to look at how our
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