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Elusive dusty inner region of distant galaxy: Research
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
An international team of scientists has achieved the milestone of directly observing the long-sought, innermost dusty ring around a supermassive black hole, at a right angle to its emerging jet. Such a structure was thought to exist in the nucleus of galaxies but had been difficult to obs
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Research suggests synthetic black holes radiate like real ones
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Understanding black holes is the key to unravelling the most fundamental laws governing the cosmos because they represent the limits of two of the best-tested theories of physics: the theory of general relativity, which describes gravity as resulting from the (large-scale) warping of space-t
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Polarized X-rays reveal shape, orientation of extremely hot matter around
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers' recent observations of a stellar-mass black hole called Cygnus X-1 reveal new details about the configuration of extremely hot matter in the region immediately surrounding the black hole.
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Astronomers discover closest black hole to earth
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF's NOIRLab, have discovered the closest-known black hole to Earth. This is the first unambiguous detection of a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way. Its close proximity to Earth, a mere 1600 light-years away,
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Scientists discover swirling galaxies unite around red quasar in 'monster'
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 21 (ANI): Using the James Webb Space Telescope to look back in time at the early universe, astronomers discovered a surprise: a cluster of galaxies merging together around a rare red quasar within a massive black hole. The findings offer an unprecedented opportunity
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Developing telescope mirrors in new way could sharpen our view of universe
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 20 (ANI): Researchers have created a new method for fabricating the high-precision, ultrathin mirrors needed for high-performance x-ray telescopes using femtosecond laser pulses. The method might assist advance the capabilities of space-based x-ray telescopes that ar
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Black hole discovered shooting fiery jet at nearby galaxy: Astronomers
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 12 (ANI): A team of astronomers has discovered a unique black hole spewing a fiery jet at another galaxy. The black hole is hosted by a galaxy around one billion light years away from Earth named RAD12.
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Study creates map of Milky Way galaxy's ancient dead stars
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 1 (ANI): The first map of the 'galactic underworld' a chart of the corpses of once massive suns that have since collapsed into black holes and neutron stars have revealed a graveyard that stretches three times the height of the Milky Way, and that almost a third of t
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Milky Way's supermassive black hole has hot gas bubbles swirling around th
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 25 (ANI): Astronomers have spotted signs of a 'hot spot' orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, by using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
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Astronomers detect hot gas bubbles swirling around the Milky Way's superma
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have spotted signs of a 'hot spot' orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of our galaxy. The finding helps us better understand the enigmatic and dynamic environment
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Study: Black hole collisions can help in understanding the rate of univers
Updated : 3 years, 6 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: Star formation is influenced by supermassive blackholes
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 24 (ANI): Powerful jets of a supermassive black hole change the conditions for star formation in interstellar clouds.
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