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NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory
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A first-of-its-kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in Nature. Fast facts Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry…
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NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Spot Distant Black Holes That Shred Stars
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Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. How do black holes at the center of galaxies form and grow over time? To answer this question, scientists need to detect and study supermassive black holes at great distances, which existed much…
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NASA’s Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes
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Astronomers using archival data from Hubble and supportive observations from Webb have located their first stellar-mass black hole in the star cluster Omega Centauri.
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