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Andromeda Galaxy Teeming With Black Holes
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the most distant object in the night sky that can be see with the naked eye, as well as the nearest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way. Now, scientists …
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What Happens When Black Holes Collide?
At the centre of each galaxy a supermassive black hole is believed to lurk with the mass equivalent to millions of individual suns. Astrophysicists believe these enormous black holes formed and grew at the same …
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Black Holes, Relativity And Time Travel
Stories in which people have traveled through time and experienced the effects of time dilation have been around for centuries, with one of the earliest found in the ancient Indian epic the Mahabharata, in which …
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10 Black Hole Quotes
Black holes are without doubt the strangest and most extraordinary objects in space. These phenomena have intrigued and baffled astronomers ever since they were conceived of, and so here are 10 interesting quotes about black …
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Young Stars Form Near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
Astronomers using Chile’s array of radio telescopes known as ALMA, have observed tell-tale signs of stars forming closer to the black hole located 27,000 light-years away at our Galactic Centre, than ever seen before. Surrounding …
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Black Hole Swallows Giant Planet In Virgo
The European Space Agency (ESA) has captured a rare astronomical event after its Integral space observatory witnessed either a small star or a big planet being consumed by a black hole located in galaxy NGC …
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Top 10 Facts About Black Holes
Of all the strange objects that exist in the Universe, black holes are without doubt the strangest. Before 1971, black holes were believed to be purely theoretical phenomena, but this perception was radically altered after …
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Massive Black Hole Bubbles Detected At Core Of Our Milky Way?
Astronomy professor Doug Finkbeiner, at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, speculated recently that the 25,000 light-year long gamma rays emissions north and south of the Milky Way’s core might in fact be caused by an …