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Scientists find black hole “missing link”
For the first time the researchers have discovered that a strong X-ray pulse is emitting from a giant black hole in a galaxy 500 million light years from Earth.
The Double Firing Burst
Astronomers from around the world combined data from ground- and space-based telescopes to paint a detailed portrait of the brightest explosion ever seen. The…
An upper mass limit for black holes
Once considered rare and exotic objects, black holes are now known to exist throughout the Universe, with the largest and most massive found at the centres of…
LHC switch-on fears are completely unfounded
Nature’s own cosmic rays regularly produce more powerful particle collisions than those planned within the LHC, which will enable nature’s laws to be studied…
New virtual telescope zooms in on Milky Way's super-massive black hole
An international team, led by astronomers at the MIT Haystack Observatory, has obtained the closest views ever of what is believed to be a super-massive black…
Closest Look Ever at the Edge of a Black Hole
“This technique gives us an unmatched view of the region near the Milky Way's central black hole,” said Sheperd Doeleman of MIT, first author of the study that…