Black Hole
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Astronomers detect first direct image of black hole expelling a powerful jet
Beijing: For the first time, astronomers have detected an image of a powerful jet exploding from a black hole. The observations of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier…
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Astronomers spot closest-known Black Hole to Earth
New York: A team of astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab in the US, has discovered the closest-known Black Hole to Earth. This is the first unambiguous detection…
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First image of supermassive black hole in centre of Milky Way revealed
New Delhi: A global team of radio astronomers have on Thursday unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. Scientists had previously seen…
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Scientists reveal eight new sources of black hole echoes
Cambridge: Astronomers have discovered eight new black hole binaries that echo around our galaxy, allowing them to piece together a common picture of how a black hole moves in an explosion, according…
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Astronomers discover black hole spins on its side
Berlin: Astronomers make astonishing discoveries every now and then. One of the most fascinating subjects for any astronomer is without a doubt, the black hole. A recent discovery by a team of…
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Researchers discover extraordinary black hole in neighbouring galaxy
Utah: Recently, astronomers have discovered a black hole unlike any other. At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes found at the centres of galaxies, but bigger…
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New state of black hole could help study gravity role in evolution of galaxies
New Delhi: Indian astronomers have found an active galaxy in a very bright state with 10 times more X-ray emission than normal, equivalent to more than 10 trillion of the sun, and located…
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Scientists detect light from behind black hole
New York: Scientists have for the first time directly observed light from behind a black hole — a scenario that was predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity but never confirmed,…
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MIT physicists confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for first time
New York: Fifty years after physicist Stephen Hawking derived the black hole theorem, physicists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have confirmed it for the first time, using observations of gravitational waves. In…
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Star dancing around black hole confirms Einstein’s theory
Washington D.C.: A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by physicist Albert Einstein Einstein over 100 years ago, astronomers have found.…
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Black hole bends light back on itself
Washington D.C.: You may have heard that nothing escapes the gravitational grasp of a black hole, not even light. This is true in the immediate vicinity of a black hole, but a…
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Hubble finds the best evidence for elusive mid-size black hole
Garching: New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided the strongest evidence yet for mid-sized black holes in the Universe. Hubble confirms that this “intermediate-mass” black hole dwells inside a…
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Student of Pune-based institute creates violent black hole flare
Pune: A team of astronomers, led by John Paice who is a student at Pune-based Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA), has created a high frame-rate movie of a growing black…
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China suspends website for black hole copyright
Beijing: Chinese authorities have suspended the website of the country’s largest stock images provider after it was found to have put its copyright mark on the first ever photo taken of a…
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First-ever image of ‘monster’ black hole captured
London: In a historic feat, astronomers announced on Wednesday that they have captured the first-ever image of a black hole in a distant galaxy — the biggest tribute to the late Stephen…
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