Tech 18:58 GMT 02.01.2021Get short URLs A new study focusing on areas far from the center of the galactic cluster Abel 2261 also raises hopes that it will soon signal a mysterious black hole slipping out of an astronomer’s lattice. While our galaxy, the Milky Way, is known to have …
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While looking deep into the heart of the galaxy, astronomers have seen the fastest star ever. This thing scurries through space; at one point in the orbit it moves at a staggering 24,000 kilometers per second – more than 85 one million kilometers per hour! That is 8% the speed …
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Astronomers have discovered the second farthest quasar ever found, 13 billion light-years from Earth. It has a supermassive black hole at its heart that tilts the cosmic scale to 1.5 billion times the mass of the Sun, making it the most massive black hole seen at that distance.* *. And …
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When two black holes eat each other, they release a lot of energy. A lot. A significant fraction of the mass of black holes is converted into energy, which is radiated as gravitational waves, waves in the structure of space-time. These can have as much energy as, and I’m not …
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