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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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NASA Space Telescope Maps Magnetic Fields of ‘Lighthouse’ Pulsar
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For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to directly measure the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101, a pulsar located within what is often referred to as the Lighthouse Nebula. The results provide new insight…
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