Supermassive Black Holes
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New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink
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Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on…
Article2 months ago
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NASA Collaborating on European-led Gravitational Wave Observatory in Space
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The first space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves has passed a major review and will proceed to the construction…
Article5 months ago
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NASA Scientists Discover a Novel Galactic ‘Fossil’
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Researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have discovered X-ray activity that sheds light on the evolution…
Article6 months ago
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NASA’s Fermi Mission Creates 14-Year Time-Lapse of the Gamma-Ray Sky
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The cosmos comes alive in an all-sky time-lapse movie made from 14 years of data acquired by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray…
Article6 months ago
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Five Reasons You Wouldn’t Want to Live Near a Black Hole
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You may have seen a portrayal of planets around supermassive black holes in the movies. But what would the conditions…
Article5 years ago
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