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This black hole like no other questions astronomers
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Black hole: the unified model of active galactic nuclei confirmed by the VLTI
L’avalanche of confirmations of the black hole theory continues with a statement from theESO which accompanies a publication in the famous newspaper Nature which can be consulted freely at arXiv.…
Beaver digs hole in Vianese quay: ‘Suddenly the water flowed like crazy’
It also brings up the question: How happy should we be with the increasing number of beavers? The number of muskrats – which like to gnaw like the beaver –…
Discovery of a drifting black hole in the Milky Way
For the first time, an isolated stellar black hole — that is, without a companion — has been detected. This invisible object revealed itself by producing a gravitational microlens. You…
First unambiguous detection of a wandering stellar black hole
For the first time, an isolated stellar black hole — that is, without a companion — has been detected. This invisible object revealed itself by producing a gravitational microlens. You…
A rare type of black hole discovered near our Galaxy
The most beautiful discoveries are sometimes made… right next to home. For this time, in the Andromeda galaxy, the spiral galaxy closest to ours. Astronomers have just found an intermediate-sized…
A Rarely Observed Type of Black Hole Found in a Galaxy Near Us
The most beautiful discoveries are sometimes made… right next to home. For this time, in the Andromeda galaxy, the spiral galaxy closest to ours. Astronomers have just found an intermediate-sized…
Surprise! A giant black hole makes stars
Black holes are often perceived as cosmic ogres, destroyers of stars. And yet, observations carried out thanks to the high resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope show that sometimes they…
A “monstrous” mini-black hole unearthed in a dwarf galaxy
A team of astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole of a few hundred thousand solar masses in a dwarf galaxy, Mrk 462. The discovery of this “small” black hole…
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is unpredictable
Here, an image produced using X-ray data collected by the Swift satellite between 2006 and 2013. The supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* is in the center of the image. Low-energy…