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Study: Magnetized dead star likely has a solid surface
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The study, published in the journal Science and led by researchers at the University of Padova, uses data from a NASA satellite, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), which was launched last December. The satellite, a collaboration between NASA and the Italian Space Agency, provides
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Scientists reveal eight new sources of black hole echoes
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Cambridge (Massachusetts) [US], May 3 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered eight new black hole binaries that echo around our galaxy, allowing them to piece together a common picture of how a black hole moves in an explosion, according to a new study.
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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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