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A Black Hole Has Been Photographed for the First Time Ever
“Monster” Black Hole is 40 Billion km Across For the first time ever, scientists have actually photographed the elusive “black hole“. As one might recall from high-school science class, these black holes are incredibly dense and have extremely powerful gravity. So if an object cross their threshold (known as the…
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Massive Black Hole Photographed Reportedly ‘Burping’ Light
Black Hole Burping Black holes have always amazed me and I’m someone who knows very little about astronomy. I do, however, know enough not to call it astrology, but it is one of those deliberate mistakes you can make to annoy your really geeky friends. Personally, I’ve often wondered how…
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Six New Unexplained Radio Signals Detected Outside Our Galaxy
Every month we seem to have speculative evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial life, whether it be mysterious transmissions or massive structures orbiting distant stars. Some are debunked, and many remain unexplained, but a series of ten massive radio bursts – which all emanated from the same region, outside of…
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Astronomers Uncover a Supermassive Black Hole in a Small Galaxy Group
Black holes are incredibly mysterious and fascinating, don’t you agree? Some of them are incredibly large, so large in fact that we can’t really wrap our minds around their massiveness, especially when we hear that they are several billion times the mass of our sun. Not too long ago, a group…
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NANOGrav Astronomers Use Pulsars to Spot Gravitational Waves
Earlier this month, the discovery of the gravitational waves shook the scientific community as it confirmed one of Einstein’s theories that it took us a century to develop the technology to prove. Now a team of astronomers known as NANOGrav believe that we can more easily track the effects of…
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The Event Horizon Telescope Will Use Helium Filled HGST Drives
We, as the human race, have accomplished quite a few impressive scientific things so far. We have been to the moon, we have vehicles driving around mars, and a probe that has left the solar system. We shouldn’t forget about the large hadron collider either, which discovered, or rather confirmed,…
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New Project Aims To Capture First Image Of A Black Hole
A grant of 14 million Euros has been awarded to a team of astrophysicists to further their development of BlackHoleCam. They hope that their new venture will allow them to capture the first image of a black hole, something that has so far evaded our observations due to the fact…
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