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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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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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
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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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Divide medical expenses into easy EMIs with the Bajaj Finserv Digital Heal
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], April 9 (ANI/BusinessWire India): With growing awareness of lifestyle diseases, it is but natural for one to be concerned about its effects on one's health and on one's finances. Often, unplanned medical expenses and treatments can leave a hole in the pocket as mo
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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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Holy Water: A creative water-holing attack discovered by Kaspersky
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 1 (ANI): Kaspersky researchers have discovered a watering-hole campaign targeting users in Asia since May 2019.
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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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