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Very massive stars vomit vast amounts of matter before collapsing into black holes
Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...
Astronomers Discover a Gigantic Supernova Remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud
An international team of astronomers has discovered new structural and spectral details of SNR J0450.4−7050, a supernova ...
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How Big Are Supermassive Black Holes?
NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...
Q&A: Astrophysicist explains how black hole mergers and quasars help detect gravitational wave networks
Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...
Very Massive Stars Blow Away Outer Layers in Powerful Winds Before Black Hole Collapse
As per a report from Space.com, researchers used sophisticated models and observations to learn that very massive stars give ...
Milky Way's Monster Black Hole Data Collected By 'Legion' Of Telescopes
The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
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'This is the holy grail of theoretical physics.' Is the key to quantum gravity hiding in this new way to make black holes?
"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...
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Astonishing 'halo' of high-energy particles around giant galaxy cluster is a glimpse into the early universe
The discovery, made with the LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio instrument in Europe, indicates that galaxy clusters, which ...