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  Supermassive Black Hole emits rare double flash: Scientists revealed the mystery

  Science | January 15, 2025 10:07 IST

  This rare event has opened up new avenues for studying the mechanics of black holes, offering insights into their interactions with binary star systems.

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  What is the sound of a black hole? Check out in this NASA audio

  Science | August 23, 2022 17:34 IST

  Black Hole sound: In a 34-second audio clip, one can relate it to be a mixture of spooky sounds of cars racing in slow-mode, car taking a pickup, or wind-flow. The sound was produced through Data Sonification of a black hole at the Center of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster.

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  First image of supermassive black hole at centre of Milky Way galaxy revealed

  Science | May 12, 2022 20:37 IST

  Scientists had previously seen stars orbiting around something invisible, compact, and very massive at the centre of the Milky Way.

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  Scientists detect light from behind black hole

  Science | July 29, 2021 18:36 IST

  The team at Stanford University noticed an intriguing pattern while watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away.

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  Oversized black hole population discovered in star cluster

  Science | July 06, 2021 22:02 IST

  Called Palomar 5, the globular cluster was discovered in 1950. It is in the Serpens constellation at a distance of about 80,000 light years, and it is one of the roughly 150 globular clusters that orbit around the Milky Way.

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  Cosmic gulp: Astronomers see black hole swallow neutron star

  Science | June 29, 2021 19:56 IST

  ​Talk about a heavy snack. For the first time, astronomers have witnessed a black hole swallowing a neutron star, the most dense object in the universe — all in a split-second gulp.

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  NASA shares photo of 2 supermassive black holes. See pic

  Science | December 15, 2020 23:00 IST

  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently shared images of two supermassive black holes in Galaxy NGC 6240 which are in the process of merging.

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  This galaxy survives black hole's feast

  Science | November 28, 2020 16:32 IST

  Researchers have discovered a galaxy that has been managing to survive a black hole's hunger by continuing to birth new stars, about 100 Sun-sized stars a year.

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  Death of a star as it gets sucked by black hole | Watch

  Science | October 14, 2020 23:13 IST

  Star seen getting sucked by a massive black hole as shown by European Southern Observatory (ESO) through artistic animation.

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  Mammoth collision of 'impossible' black holes detected for first time

  Science | September 03, 2020 10:58 IST

  The most massive black hole collision ever detected has been directly observed by the LIGO and VIRGO Scientific Collaboration, which includes scientists from The Australian National University (ANU).

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  Mysterious 'heartbeat' detected from cosmic gas cloud, in sync with a neighboring black hole

  Science | August 20, 2020 17:47 IST

  Scientists have found an unusual, mysterious gamma-ray "heartbeat" that appears to be in sync with a neighboring black hole. The cloud "beats" in rhythm with a miniature black hole located roughly 100 light-years away, suggesting the objects are connected in some way.

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  Planet 9 may be a 'primordial' black hole. Find out

  Science | July 13, 2020 10:31 IST

  Experts from Harvard College in partnership with the Black Hole initiative have raised the possibility that the orbital evidence for Planet 9 could be the result of a missing link in the decades-long puzzle of dark matter.

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  This Hungriest black hole can eat one sun a day. Check deets

  Science | July 02, 2020 9:23 IST

  The supermassive black hole, J2157, will soon become the largest black hole in the universe--Abell 85--which has a mass of 40 billion suns. The black hole is 1.2 billion light-years away from Earth and 8,000 times bigger than the black hole Sagittarius A*, which is at the centre of the Milky way.

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  Scientists record spectacular flares produced by collisions of two black holes

  Science | June 28, 2020 10:43 IST

  A spectacular discovery of light flares produced by a collision between 2 black holes has been made by scientists of US universities. The discovery is groundbreaking because black holes are regions of spacetime where the gravitational force is so strong that not even light can escape, this means that if two black holes collide they should not emit light. 

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  Twinkling heart of the Milky Way spotted. Researchers hope more info on supermassive black hole now

  Science | May 23, 2020 10:42 IST

  For the first time, astronomers have found quasi-periodic flickers in milimeter-waves from the center of the Milky way galaxy, Sagittatrius (Sgr) A*. The team found this astonishing revelation using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)

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  Hubble telescope confirms evidence for elusive mid-sized black hole

  Science | April 01, 2020 10:24 IST

  Hubble Space Telescope revealed the strongesr evidence for mid-sized black holes in the universe. Hubble has also confirmed that this "intermediate-mass" black hole dwells inside a dense star. 

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  Biggest explosion in universe came from black hole

  Science | February 28, 2020 7:21 IST

  The first hint of this giant explosion actually came in 2016. Chandra images of the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster revealed an unusual curved edge, but scientists ruled out an eruption given the amount of energy that would have been needed to carve out such a large cavity in the gas.

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  Iconic black hole image to ‘artificial embryos’, 2019 was year of many firsts in science

  Science | December 27, 2019 17:46 IST

  Cutting edge innovations in research and technology celebrated science and forwarded humankind's understanding of complex realities of the universe. The year will also be remembered as the year of testing biological and ethical limits in the laboratory, helping researchers find new avenues in the treatment of critical diseases.

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  Scientists discover monster black hole, 70 times bigger than Sun

  Science | November 28, 2019 13:17 IST

  Until just a few years ago, stellar black holes could only be discovered when they gobbled up gas from a companion star, the researchers said. This process creates powerful X-ray emissions, detectable from the Earth, that reveal the presence of the collapsed object, they said.

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  Pune-based student creates violent black hole flares

  Science | October 12, 2019 21:30 IST

  The black hole system studied is named MAXI J1820+070 and was first discovered in early 2018. About 10,000 light years away in our own Milky Way, it has the mass of about seven suns.