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Powerful Beam From Ancient Black Hole 12.9 Billion Light-Years Away Targets Earth

January 16, 2025 admin

Black holes are among the most mysterious cosmic objects, much studied but not fully understood. In pursuit of understanding these celestial bodies, astronomers have stumbled upon a supermassive black hole, located a whopping 12.9 billion light-years from Earth, and it’s doing something pretty spectacular. The “blazar” is firing a super-powerful beam of energy straight towards…

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A World-First Discovery – Twin Stars Trapped Orbiting Galactic Black Hole

December 18, 2024 admin

At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from Earth and 23.5 million kilometres in diameter. In a world first, a team of astronomers led by Florian Peißker from the University of Cologne, Germany, have discovered a binary star system orbiting this…

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How Does Black Hole 250 Million Light Years Away Sound? NASA Releases Audio

September 21, 2024 admin

Representational Image US space agency NASA has recorded an eerie audio clip that captures sound waves coming out of a supermassive black hole situated 250 million light years away. The acoustic waves, coming out of the black hole located at the heart of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, were transposed up 57 and 58 octaves…

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Faraway black hole unleashes record-setting energetic jets

September 19, 2024 admin

This artist’s concept shows a galaxy with a brilliant quasar, a very bright, distant and active supermassive black hole that is millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, at its center, seen in this undated handout picture. | Photo Credit: Reuters Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite…

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AstroSat unravels mysteries surrounding Black Hole X-ray Binary MAXI J1820+070

February 21, 2024 admin

The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) AstroSat’s full multi-wavelength capabilities have enabled an international team of scientists to unravel the mysteries surrounding the X-ray binary system MAXI J1820+070, hosting a black hole. AstroSat is India’s first multi-wavelength space observatory which was launched in September 2015 and now a comprehensive study presents unique insights into the…

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The brightest object in the universe is a black hole that eats a star a day

February 20, 2024 admin

Scientists have no reported evidence of the true conditions in Hell, perhaps because no one has ever returned to tell the tale. Hell has been imagined as a supremely uncomfortable place, hot and hostile to bodily forms of human life. Thanks to a huge astronomical survey of the entire sky, we have now found what…

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Black hole is observed snacking on sun-like star, bite by bite

September 9, 2023 admin

The interaction between a supermassive black hole in a galaxy named 2MASX J02301709+2836050 and a star orbiting it is seen in this image captured by the Pan-STARRS telescope, in Hawaii, U.S., in an undated handout image provided by NASA. | Photo Credit: Reuters Black holes, celestial objects known for their gluttony, usually eat stars unlucky…

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