Under pressure, black holes feast
A new, Yale-led study shows that some supermassive black holes actually thrive under pressure.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has reached L2: What happens next
Since its launch on Christmas day, astronomers have eagerly followed the complex deployment and unfurling of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope—the largest to ever take to the skies.
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Feb 10, 2022
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WISE survey uncovers millions of black holes
(Phys.org)—NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies.
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Image: Black hole caught in a stellar homicide
(Phys.org) -- This computer-simulated image shows gas from a star that is ripped apart by tidal forces as it falls into a black hole. Some of the gas also is being ejected at high speeds into space.
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Black holes: devourers of stars reveal their secrets
A trio of scientists were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for their research into black holes, some of the most mysterious objects in the universe that gobble stars like specks of dust.
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In colliding galaxies, a pipsqueak shines bright
In the nearby Whirlpool galaxy and its companion galaxy, M51b, two supermassive black holes heat up and devour surrounding material. These two monsters should be the most luminous X-ray sources in sight, but a new study using ...
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Feb 20, 2019
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A Milky Way twin swept by an ultra-fast X-ray wind
ESA's XMM-Newton has found a wind of high-speed gas streaming from the centre of a bright spiral galaxy like our own that may be reducing its ability to produce new stars.
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Massive Black Hole Implicated in Stellar Destruction
(PhysOrg.com) -- New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes suggest that a dense stellar remnant has been ripped apart by a black hole a thousand times as massive as the Sun. If confirmed, ...
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Astronomers spot oldest 'dead' galaxy yet observed
A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers.
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Mar 6, 2024
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How do stars go rogue?
Rogue stars are moving so quickly they're leaving the Milky Way, and never coming back. How in the universe could this happen?
Astronomy
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