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According to research, black holes eat faster than previously thought
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
A new study led by Northwestern University is changing the way astrophysicists think about supermassive black holes' eating habits. Previously, physicists hypothesised that black holes ate slowly, but recent simulations show that black holes feed far faster than popular thinking predicts. T
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Research reveals black holes eat faster than previously expected
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
A new study led by Northwestern University is redefining how astrophysicists think about the eating habits of supermassive black holes.
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Astrophysicists explain why Earth's day was always 19.5 hours for more tha
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The slow and steady lengthening of the Earth's day caused by the tidal pull of the moon has been halted for more than a billion years, according to a group of astrophysicists from the University of Toronto (U of T). They demonstrate that from around two billion years ago until 600 million y
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James Webb telescope reveals Milky Way-like galaxies in young universe
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars, elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks, at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its present age. The finding of so-called barred galaxies,
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Scientists hunt for the second-closest supermassive black hole
Updated : 3 years, 3 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, 3 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, 7 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, 8 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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Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beat
Updated : 5 years, 5 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, 5 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, 8 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, 8 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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