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astronomical objects
Astronomers Don’t Know What Our Black Hole Ate, but They Definitely Saw It Belch
The Milky Way galaxy. Image: ESO/S. Brunier (Fair Use) In May 2019, astronomers witnessed a bright flare coming from the…
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New Video Puts Iconic Image of Black Hole in a Cosmic Context
Zooming out from the M87 black hole. Gif: Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration/Gizmodo Two years ago, astronomers acquired the first…
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Astronomers Spotted a Black Hole Casually Gliding Through Space
The host galaxy of a mobile supermassive black hole.Image: Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Some 230 million light-years from Earth,…
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Physicists Measure Smallest Gravitational Field Ever Detected
Gravity can be understood as originating from a warping of space-time, which is shown in this artist impression.Image: Arkitek Scientific…
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Astronomers Looking for One Black Hole May Have Found an Entire Squad
About 7,800 light-years away—within our galactic neighborhood—is globular cluster NGC 6397, basically a wad of stars held together by gravity.…
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