Biggest stellar black hole to date discovered in our galaxy
Astronomers have discovered a large stellar mass black hole which weighs in at 33 times the mass of the sun and is located just 2,000 light-years away.
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Read more: Astronomers Discover Heaviest Stellar Black Hole in the Milky WayThe supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the Milky Way, but a newly spotted object takes the crown for the most massive stellar black hole known in our galaxy, weighing in at an impressive 33 tim…
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Neutron Stars Spew Jets That Travel at Relativistic Speeds, Scientists Say
Read more: Neutron Stars Spew Jets That Travel at Relativistic Speeds, Scientists SayThe dense remains of massive stars generate powerful jets of gas and dust that move hundreds of millions of miles per hour, according to research published last week in Nature.Read more…
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Stunning image shows the magnetic fields of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole
Read more: Stunning image shows the magnetic fields of our galaxy’s supermassive black holeThe Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, the group that took the historic first ever image of a black hole, is back with a new stunning black hole image.
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New Image Exposes Intense Magnetic Field of the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Read more: New Image Exposes Intense Magnetic Field of the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black HoleA new image of our galaxy’s central black hole reveals the magnetic field surrounding the object in polarized light. The image reveals how gas and superheated matter in the immediate vicinity of the black hole move around it. But aside from that, it’s …
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These Violent Collisions Could Be Producing Dark Matter
Read more: These Violent Collisions Could Be Producing Dark MatterA collision of two extraordinarily dense, collapsed stars in the distant universe is providing potential clues to the axion, a dark matter candidate first proposed half a century ago.Read more…
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This App Points You Straight at the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Read more: This App Points You Straight at the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black HoleIf you want to stay grounded—which is to say, you want a haunting reminder of your own diminutive size and mortality—do I have the tool for you. Meet Galactic Compass: an app which will point the user towards the whopping black hole at the center of ou…
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Physicists Measure Gravity of Smallest Mass Yet
Read more: Physicists Measure Gravity of Smallest Mass YetDespite keeping us grounded and warping light that travels through space, gravity is actually quite a weak force. The smaller the mass, the less gravity appears to have any pull, until at quantum scales it appears to have no force at all.Read more…
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Nightmare black hole is the brightest object in the universe
Read more: Nightmare black hole is the brightest object in the universeA monster black hole has been discovered, and it devours the equivalent mass of our sun every single day.
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Nesting Doll Stars Proposed as Solution to General Relativity
Read more: Nesting Doll Stars Proposed as Solution to General RelativityIf you asked an astrophysicist what is yet to be discovered in the universe, there’s a good chance they’d paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld: It’s full of known unknowns. Read more…
