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Astronomers capture image of black hole at center of the Milky Way
Updated : 10 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Daejeon [South Korea], May 16 (ANI/Global Economic):Astronomers snapped an image of a supermassive black hole for the first time in history. This is the second result of the research team since 2019, when it presented a picture of the M87 black hole. The Korea Astronomy and Space Science Ins
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Astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy ever
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Cambridge [US], April 20 (ANI): An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant astronomical object of all time: a galaxy. Shining only about 300 million years after the Big Bang, it may contain the oldest stars in the universe or a supermassive black hole.
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Feeding patterns of black holes reveal their size: Study
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Illinois [US], August 13 (ANI): A new study has revealed that the flickering in the brightness observed in actively feeding supermassive black holes is related to their mass. The feeding patterns of black holes offer insight into their size, researchers have reported.
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Indigenously designed, developed spectrograph can locate faint light from
Updated : 2 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 3 (ANI): Indian scientists have indigenously designed and developed a low-cost optical spectrograph that can locate sources of faint light from distant quasars and galaxies in a very young universe, regions around supermassive black-holes around the galaxies, and cos
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New study indicates supermassive black hole at center of Milky Way is low-
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 20 (ANI): New research has revealed that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is not spinning much, providing more evidence that it is unlikely to have a jet.
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Zooming in on the origins of fast radio bursts
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 2 (ANI): Astronomers have peered into the home galaxies of fast radio bursts, ruling out supermassive black holes as a cause and bringing us a step closer to understanding the origins of these mysterious signals from outer space.
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Large simulation finds new origin of supermassive black holes
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 2 (ANI): Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University in Japan, have revealed a new theory for the origin of supermassive black holes. In this theory, the precursors of supermassive black holes grow by swallowing up not only interstellar
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Bending the bridge between two galaxy clusters!
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 11 (ANI): Several hundred million years ago, two galaxy clusters collided and then passed through each other. This mighty event released a flood of hot gas from each galaxy cluster that formed an unusual bridge between the two objects. This bridge is now being pumm
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Star dancing around supermassive black hole confirms Einstein's theory
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 16 (ANI): 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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Discovery of young blazar produced by merger of two galaxies
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 14 (ANI): A blazar is a particular type of active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a central supermassive black hole which emits a jet, a flux of highly energetic particles and radiation moving almost at the velocity of light, and which is aligned along the observe
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Study shows possibility of planets revolving around a black hole
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Nov 25 (ANI): In a recent study the researchers profound a new theory that there is a possibility of thousands of planets around a supermassive black hole.
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Astronomers discover a superfast star coming out of supermassive black hol
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 13 (ANI): Travelling at an extreme speed of six million km/hour, astronomers observed an ultrafast star ejected by a supermassive black hole at the heart at the Milky Way five million years ago.
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