Category: black hole
One of the first known black holes is more massive than once thought
Astronomers might need to adjust their expectations for black holes. According to the New York Times, an international research team has determined that Cygnus X-1, one of the first discovered black holes, is considerably more massive than once thoug… Source
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Hubble researchers find a gaggle of small black holes
Larger black holes may be the usual attention-getters, but the smaller ones may be at least as important. A team using the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a concentration of small black holes in the NGC 6397 globular star cluster (pictured abov… Source
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Astronomers may have spotted light from colliding black holes
Black hole collisions tend not to produce light by their very nature — you may catch gravitational waves, but that’s about it. However, scientists might have just found one of those rare instances where a collision was visible. A team using May 2019… Source
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Scientists find the closest known black hole to date
Black holes are quite common (estimates indicate over 10 million in the Milky Way alone), and now it doesn’t appear that you have to go very far to find one… relatively speaking. Astronomers have detected what they say is the closest known black ho… Source
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Scientists visualize a black hole plasma jet in unprecedented detail
At the center of most galaxies is a supermassive black hole. While many aspects of these objects remain mysterious, it’s clear that they gobble up immense amounts of energy and matter. This forms an accretion disc of plasma, but sometimes that plasma… Source
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