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

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

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

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

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

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

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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