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Astronomers Found Strange, Accelerating X-Ray Pulses Coming From a Black Hole. They Might Be a Sign of an Orbiting White Dwarf
The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...
Astronomers catch unprecedented features at brink of active black hole
International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...
A strange black hole is acting even stranger
A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.
NASA Found a Black Hole Knocked Over on Its Side. That Probably Shouldn't Happen.
Supermassive black holes typically rotate with the galactic plane, expelling X-rays perpendicular to the plane itself.
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NASA watched a black hole eat a wandering star
Now, though, NASA has actually watched a black hole eat a star. To get a good view of the event, NASA used multiple of its space telescopes to observe the black hole as it ate the star.
Newfound galaxy class may indicate early black hole growth
In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed ...
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Hubble View Of Runaway Black Hole Leaves Massive Streak Of Stars In Its Wake
The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...
7 unseen images of outer space captured by NASA
NGC 5548 is a turbulent galaxy that exhibits complex absorption features and X-ray spectral variations. The "obscurer" is an outflowing stream of weakly ionized gas that was discovered in 2007. AFGL ...