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We've just discovered the most distant supermassive black hole ever. And boy, is it one massive infant!
Utilizing data from the James Webb Space Telescope, it was revealed that this black hole emerged ju…
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Space success: India ushers in 2024 by orbiting XPoSat successfully
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh)India on Monday ushered in the New Year in a grand manner by orbiting i…
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Astronomers using a NASA space telescope spotted the first signs of a planet beyond the Milky Way
If this planet exists, it's orbiting a dead star or a black hole and it only passes through Earth's…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A black hole warped space-time so much that astronomers saw flashes of light from its far side
Albert Einstein predicted that black holes warp space-time, and astronomers just saw the proof - fl…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Indian astrophysicists find distinctive signature of cosmic X-rays to identify the boundary around black holes
Although black holes does not have a surface, it is confined within an invisible boundary, cal…
PTI
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The solar system was hit with a gamma-ray burst so bright, it blinded scientists' equipment in space
One astronomer dubbed the high-intensity beam of radiation the BOAT: the Brightest of All Time.
Chris Panella,Jessica Orwig
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Unknown objects at the heart of the Milky Way are beaming radio signals, then mysteriously disappearing
Radio waves bursting from the center of the Milky Way, then disappearing, might reveal a new type o…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX launched a $214 million NASA satellite into orbit to study black holes and dead stars
NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) was launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 r…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Mysterious radio waves are radiating from an unknown object at the heart of the Milky Way, astronomers say
The signal appeared near the center of the galaxy. It was strong for most of 2020, but then it sudd…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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ISRO, NASA just spotted a black hole spinning so fast that it could be making space itself rotate
Those X-rays were caused by gas and dust falling into the black hole, which is about 10 time…
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Astronomers found the closest black hole to Earth — and there could be millions more like it
Scientists usually find black holes by detecting X-rays they emit as they devour nearby stars. But …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A groundbreaking first in astronomy found that black holes can be spotted with backyard telescopes
"The observations made on this target were immediately exciting," Bill Goff, who is a member of the…
Jessica Orwig
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Indian-origin Student Discovers And Measures Mysterious Black Hole
Dheeraj Pasham will begin a post-doctoral research position at Nasa Goddard in late August.
Times Of India
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A Super-Powerful Telescope Caught This Image Of Strange Happenings In An Ancient Star Cluster
Star clusters are made up of giant circular clouds of old stars, some around 12 billion years old (…
Randy Astaiza
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A bizarre galaxy NASA spotted at the edge of the universe could upend what we know about supermassive black holes
A very early galaxy puzzling scientists suggests supermassive black holes may not have come from de…
Marianne Guenot
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A mysterious object has been spotted that's 10 million times as bright as the sun. Scientists can't work out why it hasn't exploded.
An ultraluminous X-ray source spotted 12 million light-years away appears to be breaking the known …
Marianne Guenot
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After the moon, a journey to the sun with Aditya-L1
India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C57 (PSLV-C57) lifted off with the country's Aditya-L1 space…
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NASA released an audio clip of a black hole, and it's pretty spooky
Black holes push waves of pressure through the galaxies around them. It can sound like a wailing al…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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'Jekyll and Hyde' binary stars discovered by Indian-origin scientist
A binary star system just under 20,000 light-years from Earth is unlike the others. Armed with an a…
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The Milky Way is recycling its gases to form a clumpy halo
A halo is a large region filled with hot gas that surrounds a galaxy, also known as a "circumgal…