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NASA Images Help Explain Eating Habits of Massive Black Hole

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Data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope has given scientists new insights into why some supermassive black holes shine differently…

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New Images Using Data From Retired Telescopes Reveal Hidden Features

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Updated June. 16, 2022, 6 p.m. PDT (9 p.m. EDT): Language was added to acknowledge the contribution of radio telescopes to the images.…

Article2 years ago
This animation shows what happened in the nine days after a neutron star merger detected in 2017. First, a pair of glowing blue neutron stars spiral quickly toward each other, merging with a bright flash. The merger creates gravitational waves (shown as pale arcs rippling outward), a near-light-speed jet that produced gamma rays (shown as brown cones and a rapidly traveling magenta glow erupting from the center of the collision), and a donut-shaped ring of expanding blue debris around the center of the explosion. A variety of colors represent the wavelengths of light produced by the kilonova, creating violet to blue-white to red bursts above and below the collision.

Cosmic Couples and Devastating Breakups

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Relationships can be complicated – especially if you’re a pair of stars. Sometimes you start a downward spiral you just…

Article5 years ago

Astronomers Catch Jet from Binge-Eating Black Hole

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Back in January, a new X-ray source flared and rapidly brightened in the Andromeda galaxy (M31), located 2.5 million light-years…

Article12 years ago

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