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Scientists hunt for the second-closest supermassive black hole
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Two astrophysicists at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian have suggested a way to observe what could be the second-closest supermassive black hole to Earth: a behemoth 3 million times the mass of the Sun, hosted by the dwarf galaxy Leo I.
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Research explores possibility of life beyond Earth
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
For millennia, caves have served as shelters for prehistoric humans. Caves have also intrigued scholars from early Chinese naturalists to Charles Darwin. A cave ecologist has been in and out of these subterranean ecosystems, examining the unique life forms -- and unique living conditions --
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Study: Black hole collisions can help in understanding the rate of univers
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 17 (ANI): In a new study, two University of Chicago astrophysicists laid out a method for using pairs of colliding black holes to measure how fast the universe is expanding, and thus understand how the universe evolved, what it is made out of, and where it's going.
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Study: Blinking gamma ray bursts are explained by falling stardust and uns
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 5 (ANI): Astrophysicists have developed the first 3D simulation of the entire evolution of a jet from its birth by a rotating black hole to its emission far from the collapsing star.
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WhiteHat Jr announces CreatorSpace: Mission Mars to help children learn ab
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 9 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Leading EdTech company WhiteHat Jr today announced the launch of an exciting virtual event 'CreatorSpace: Mission Mars', the third such event in the series on Open Learning Events - Global Experts for Young Learners. The event of
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Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beat
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 2 (ANI): Einstein's general theory of relativity -- the idea that gravity is matter warping spacetime -- has withstood over 100 years of scrutiny and testing, including the newest test by University of Arizona astrophysicists from the Event Horizon Telescope collabor
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Astronomers determine how disk galaxies evolve so smoothly
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 26 (ANI): Computer simulations are showing astrophysicists how massive clumps of gas within galaxies scatter some stars from their orbits, eventually creating the smooth, exponential fade in the brightness of many galaxy disks.
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Researchers shed new light on solar flares
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 19 (ANI): Plasma astrophysicists at KU Leuven have created the first self-consistent simulation of the physical processes that occur during a solar flare. The researchers used Flemish supercomputers and a new combination of physical models.
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KU Leuven researchers shed new light on solar flares
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 18 (ANI): Plasma astrophysicists at KU Leuven have created the first self-consistent simulation of the physical processes that occur during a solar flare. The researchers used Flemish supercomputers and a new combination of physical models.
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Large simulation finds new origin of supermassive black holes
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 2 (ANI): Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University in Japan, have revealed a new theory for the origin of supermassive black holes. In this theory, the precursors of supermassive black holes grow by swallowing up not only interstellar
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Astrophysicists capture new class of transient objects
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Move aside, AT2018COW. There is a new astronomical transient in the universe, and it is faster, heavier and brighter at radio wavelengths than its mysterious predecessors.
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Team that captured first image of black hole wins 2020 Breakthrough Prize
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washinton DC [USA], Sep 6 (ANI): An international group of astrophysicists, who captured the first image of the black hole back in April, received the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics on Thursday.
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