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Scientists hunt for the second-closest supermassive black hole
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Two astrophysicists at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian have suggested a way to observe what could be the second-closest supermassive black hole to Earth: a behemoth 3 million times the mass of the Sun, hosted by the dwarf galaxy Leo I.
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New research reveals exact shape of the halo of stars existing in our gala
Updated : 4 months ago IST
The cloud-like diffusion of stars, which almost appears like a disk in pictures, has long been believed to be spherical in shape. However, new research coming from a team of scientists at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics proves otherwise.
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Could life exist deep underground on Mars?
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Massachusetts [US], September 23 (ANI): Recent science missions and results are bringing the search for a life closer to home, and scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard, and Smithsonian (CfA) and the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) may have figured out how to determine wh
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New study to search universe for signs of technological civilisations
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Cambridge (Massachusetts) [USA], June 20 (ANI): Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian and the University of Rochester are collaborating on a project to search the universe for signs of life via technosignatures, after receiving the first NASA non-radio technosign
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Scientists shed light on growth of black holes
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
California [USA], June 2 (ANI): Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, and the Black Hole Initiative (BHI), have shed light on how black holes grow over time by developing a new model to predict if growth by accretion or by mergers is dominant.
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Astronomers detect first double helium-core white dwarf gravitational wave
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 3 (ANI): Scientists at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced the detection of J2322+0509, a detached binary white dwarf composed of two helium-core stars with a short orbital period. It is the first gravitational wave source of its kind ever detec
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