blackhole
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Hundreds of One-Dimensional Strands Found Lurking in Our Galaxy’s Core
Behold, the stringy, rainbowesque melange of one-dimensional structures hidden in plain sight across the galactic centre. Or should we say plane sight? The tendrils measure 5 to 150 light-years in length, and now a team of scientists has found filaments that stretch out parallel to the galactic plane surrounding the supermassive black hole at the…
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New Image of M87 Black Hole Shows a ‘Fluffier’ Ring and Its High-Speed Jet
The Event Horizon Telescope, a network of radio telescopes around the world, has produced fresh observations of the black hole at the centre of galaxy Messier 87.
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Bent Light in Deep Space Reveals One of the Biggest Black Holes Ever Detected
Holy smokes. A group of astronomers have found a black hole containing (checks notes) 30 billion times the mass of our Sun. That’s more than seven times the size of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.
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X-Rays Reveal Superheated Gloop Surrounding a Black Hole
The Cygnus X-1 system is one of the brightest sources of X-rays in the Milky Way, consisting of a black hole called Cygnus X-1 and its giant companion, a star packing 41 times the mass of our Sun. Researchers recently measured the polarization of those X-rays to better understand the geometry of the superheated plasma…