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Researchers discover mystery gas near centre of Milky Way
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], August 20 (ANI): An international team of researchers have discovered a dense, cold gas that's been shot out from the centre of the Milky Way "like bullets".
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Researchers find origin, maximum mass of black holes
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 2 (ANI): Through simulations of a dying star, a team of theoretical Physics researchers have found the evolutionary origin and the maximum mass of black holes which are discovered by the detection of gravitational waves.
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Hungriest of black holes among the most massive in the universe
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], July 1 (ANI): We now know just how massive the fastest-growing black hole in the universe actually is, as well as how much it eats, thanks to new research led by the Australian National University (ANU).
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Scientists explain about second-most distant quasar, black hole growth
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Often described as cosmic lighthouses, quasars are luminous beacons that can be observed at the outskirts of the universe, providing a rich topic of study for astronomers and cosmologists. Now scientists have announced the discovery of the second-most dis
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Astronomers discover 'monster' quasar from early universe
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 25 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered the most massive quasar known in the early universe, containing a monster black hole with a mass equivalent to 1.5 billion Suns.
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Black holes are more like holograms, say scientists
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 4 (ANI): According to new research by SISSA, ICTP, and INFN, black holes could be like a hologram, where all the information is amassed in a two-dimensional surface able to reproduce a three-dimensional image.
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Zooming in on the origins of fast radio bursts
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 2 (ANI): Astronomers have peered into the home galaxies of fast radio bursts, ruling out supermassive black holes as a cause and bringing us a step closer to understanding the origins of these mysterious signals from outer space.
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Large simulation finds new origin of supermassive black holes
Updated : 5 years, 9 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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Scientists shed light on growth of black holes
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
California [USA], June 2 (ANI): Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, and the Black Hole Initiative (BHI), have shed light on how black holes grow over time by developing a new model to predict if growth by accretion or by mergers is dominant.
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Astronomers observe pair of jets blasting away from black hole at light sp
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 29 (ANI): Astronomers have caught a black hole hurling hot material into space at close to the speed of light. This flare-up was captured in a new movie from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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Undergraduate student helps reveal how galaxies and black holes grow toget
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 21 (ANI): Over the past two decades, astronomers have concluded that most, if not all, galaxies host massive black holes at their centres and the masses of a black hole and its host galaxy are correlated. But how are the two connected?
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Bending the bridge between two galaxy clusters!
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 11 (ANI): Several hundred million years ago, two galaxy clusters collided and then passed through each other. This mighty event released a flood of hot gas from each galaxy cluster that formed an unusual bridge between the two objects. This bridge is now being pumm
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