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A signal like none before
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 20 (ANI): The expectations of the gravitational-wave research community have been fulfilled: gravitational-wave discoveries are now part of their daily work as they have identified in the past observing run, O3, new gravitational-wave candidates about once a week
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Star dancing around supermassive black hole confirms Einstein's theory
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 16 (ANI): A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by physicist Albert Einstein Einstein over 100 years ago, astronomers have found.
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Discovery of young blazar produced by merger of two galaxies
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 14 (ANI): A blazar is a particular type of active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a central supermassive black hole which emits a jet, a flux of highly energetic particles and radiation moving almost at the velocity of light, and which is aligned along the observe
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Black hole bends light back on itself
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 9 (ANI): You may have heard that nothing escapes the gravitational grasp of a black hole, not even light. This is true in the immediate vicinity of a black hole, but a bit farther out -- in disks of material that swirl around some black holes -- light can escape.
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Hubble finds the best evidence for elusive mid-size black hole
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Garching [Germany], Apr 1 (ANI): New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided the strongest evidence yet for mid-sized black holes in the Universe.
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Record- breaking explosion by black hole spotted
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 27 (ANI): The biggest explosion seen in the universe has been found. This record-breaking, gargantuan eruption came from a black hole in a distant galaxy cluster hundreds of millions of light-years away.
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Stars need a partner to create Universe's brightest explosions
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): A recent study by the University of Warwick observes that stars need to be in binary systems to create gamma-ray bursts. Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's brightest explosions, caused by massive collapsing stars.
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Study reveals some gnome galaxies host massive blackholes
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Jan 11 (ANI): A new hint towards finding out the early history of galaxy formation comes up as the astronomers discover 13 new black holes in some dwarf galaxies which are not more than a billion light-years away from our planet.
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Sanguine days ahead for real estate in NCR
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Gurugram (Haryana) [India] Dec 20 (ANI/NewsVoir): Owing to the opportunities available in the National Capital Region (NCR) it has turned into a black hole attracting people who seek a better life. Gurugram and Noida, in particular, have emerged as a real estate hub in the region.
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Study shows possibility of planets revolving around a black hole
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Nov 25 (ANI): In a recent study the researchers profound a new theory that there is a possibility of thousands of planets around a supermassive black hole.
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Astronomers discover a superfast star coming out of supermassive black hol
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 13 (ANI): Travelling at an extreme speed of six million km/hour, astronomers observed an ultrafast star ejected by a supermassive black hole at the heart at the Milky Way five million years ago.
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Team that captured first image of black hole wins 2020 Breakthrough Prize
Updated : 6 years, 6 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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