Rare and mysterious cosmic explosion: Gamma-ray burst or jetted tidal disruption event?
Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts ...
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See The Milky Way's Sagittarius A* Black Hole In An Amazing Polarized Event Horizon Telescope Image
Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has ...
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South African Telescope Discovers a Giant Galaxy That's 32 Times Bigger Than Earth's [analysis]
You may not know it, but right now there's a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief party goers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have ...
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Time-lapse of 1st black hole ever imaged reveals how matter swirls around it
Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...
Six planets align in rare celestial event visible from Earth through mid February
Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.
The 1st monster black hole ever imaged has messy eating habits
A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this ...