A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.
Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...
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Balloon telescope sheds new light on pulsars and black holes
Long before rockets and satellites reached space, the Crab Nebula stood out as a steady beacon of high-energy light. At its ...
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Balloon Telescope Gives Us a New Look at the Cygnus X-1 Black Hole
The XL-Calibur balloon telescope captured precise X-ray polarization data from the Cygnus X-1 black hole, offering new ...
Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...
Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...
Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...
Some 200 light years from Earth, the core of a dead star is circling a larger star in a macabre cosmic dance. The dead star ...
An international collaboration of physicists including researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has made measurements to better understand how matter falls into black holes and how enormous ...
The trip took place in July 2024 and took 6 days. Over that time, the flying observatory looked at two main sources: the Crab ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns. These bursts of light and energy can come from things ...
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