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'1-in-10-billion' star system is doomed to explode in a fiery kilonova

02/06/2023 — discover the star system CPD-29 2176, located about 11,400 light-years from Earth. The team deduced that the binary star system contained a small, dense neutron star being
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Astrophysicists discovered the perfect explosion in space

02/16/2023 — the secret is hidden in this collapse: Perhaps when the star falls into a black hole, the energy from the hypermassive neutron star’s immense magnetic field is released
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Have Scientists Found a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole?

02/22/2023 — the black holes’ inward spiral leads to their merger — an event that can impart a kick to the newly formed black hole, ejecting it from the center. “Recoiling black holes
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Astronomers just solved a 60-year mystery regarding the brightest objects in the universe

05/02/2023 — spirals around a supermassive black hole with the lovely name Sagittarius A* . Since humans have had the telescope technology to detect black hole mergers — which
News > The Mirror - UK

Earth hit by massive blast of energy after two stars collide lightyears away

01/09/2023 — , according to astronomy experts. When neutron stars collide they can merge together before collapsing into a black hole A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive
Blogs and journals > American Astronomical Society: AAS Nova

The Prototypical Blazar BL Lacertae Shows New Behavior

05/24/2023 — place. Quasars and blazars are so bright because they are powered by a supermassive black hole that holds sway over the centre of the galaxy. It’s devouring, ripping, and
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Curious cosmic coincidence could help explain fast radio burst mystery

03/31/2023 — soon collapse down into a black hole — and it might create the FRB when it does so. The observation of gravitational waves, which are a clear sign of a neutron star
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Cosmic Seeds of the Biggest Black Holes

01/23/2023 — falling into the black hole mouth, located at the Innermost Stable Circular Orbit (ISCO), according to Einstein’s General Relativity , is radiated away. Black holes are the
Scientific studies > DOAJ

Post-inflationary axions: a minimal target for axion haloscopes

05/08/2023 — Substructure with Pulsar Timing Correlations , JCAP 12 (2020) 033 [ arXiv:2005.03030 ] [ INSPIRE ]. Google Scholar I.I. Tkachev, Fast Radio Bursts and Axion Miniclusters , JETP
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E. Washington astronomers chalk up new black hole discovery that sent ripples through time

05/24/2023 — neutron star merger, a couple of detections of neutron star and black holes merging and a few events that scientists are not sure whether they were a black hole merger with a
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Astronomers Reveal First Direct Visual Evidence of a Supermassive Black Hole

03/29/2023 — on black holes and the event horizon.” This artist’s impression depicts the black hole at the heart of the enormous elliptical galaxy M87. This black hole was chosen as
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Astrophysicists Discover a Mysterious Perfect Explosion in Space – “It Makes No Sense”

02/16/2023 — , briefly as a single hypermassive neutron star, which then collapses to a black hole. The researchers speculate whether it is in this collapse that a large part of the
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Establishing the Nonprimordial Origin of Black Hole–Neutron Star Mergers

05/03/2023 — To ensure we keep this website safe, please can you confirm you are a human by ticking the box below. …
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Astronomers Observe a Surprisingly Faint and Rapidly Fading Supernova

04/28/2023 — inferred that the mass must have been stolen—the star must have some kind of dense, compact companion, either a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole—close enough to
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Probing Quadratic Gravity with the Event Horizon Telescope

02/14/2023 — Event Horizon Telescope, comprising the size of the black hole shadow as well as the radiation emitted by infalling matter. On this basis, we argue that it is the brightness
Press releases > Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) press releases

Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy

05/04/2023 — horizon”, the boundary of the black hole beyond which no light can escape. Although we cannot see the event horizon itself, because it cannot emit light, glowing gas orbiting
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Upgraded LIGO Reactivated: Resumes Unraveling Universe’s Secrets With Enhanced Gravitational Wave Detection

05/25/2023 — slightly changing the distance between objects in their way. When two massive objects – like a black hole or a neutron star – get close together, they rapidly spin around each
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Giant galaxy redefined after flipping jet to point straight at Earth

03/22/2023 — category a galaxy fits into. At the heart of most galaxies lies a supermassive black hole, and in some cases these monsters are busily chowing down on material and emitting
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The Heaviest Neutron Stars Could Have Strange Matter Cores

05/29/2023 — exists in neutron stars Han et al. – Plausible presence of new state in neutron stars with masses above 0.98MTOV UT – Astronomy Jargon 101: Neutron Star UT – Gravitational
Scientific studies > MDPI

Two-Dimensional Symmetry Breaking at the Event Horizon of Black Holes

03/15/2023 — black holes and/or by accretion. In this work, we focus on the possible mechanism of black hole growth from accretion of mass. By considering the event horizon as a two
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Solar Energy Isn’t Available in the Dark, So Researchers Designed an Efficient Low-Cost System for Producing Power at Night

03/29/2023 — This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-FG02-07ER46426. Artist’s depiction of a black hole about to swallow a neutron star. Credit: Carl
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Gravitational waves could indicate transition to strange quark matter

04/10/2023 — produced by them to explore the second possibility. The frequency of the gravitational waves from neutron-star mergers typically depends on how fast the neutron star rotates
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A messy black hole may have just triggered the largest explosion in the universe

05/12/2023 — the Milky Way, James Webb telescope reveals — Black holes may be swallowing invisible matter that slows the movement of stars — What's the biggest black hole in the
News > Le Monde - France

Astronomers detected a star that was ripped apart by a supermassive black hole

12/01/2022 — )," explained Ms. Vergani. "A star is ripped apart by the gravity of a supermassive black hole that it got close to." The black hole’s attraction force literally tears matter
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Maarten Schmidt, astronomer who explained quasars, dies at 92

09/26/2022 — association with black holes. Advertisement Together the concept of the quasar and of the black hole has come to symbolize the modern view of the universe as a place of violent
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Promising Way to Discover the Existence of Strange Form of Matter

04/11/2023 — . Normally, the frequency of the gravitational waves from neutron-star mergers relies on how fast the neutron star rotates. Larger neutron stars generally rotate in a slower
Blogs and journals > Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics blog

Black hole accretion discs may dance around more slowly than previously thought

05/02/2023 — properties and how black hole systems form and evolve. Accretion onto compact objects like black holes, neutron stars or white dwarfs is an important dynamical process that
News > The Times of India

Uttarakhand: Researchers release 1st data on gravitational waves in space

11/29/2022 — astronomers working with the International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA), for detection of low-frequency gravitational waves. The data was released after three and a half years
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James Webb telescope captures 'knot' of galaxies in the early universe

10/20/2022 — ' quasars. These objects serve as active galactic nuclei and are powered by the gas tumbling into a supermassive black hole at the core of their galaxies. The imagery also
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Study Uncovers a Closely Bound Duo of Energetic Quasars

04/06/2023 — evident “jiggle,” which can be the outcome of sporadic changes in the feeding activity of the black hole. Furthermore, the team made use of the Gemini Multi-Object
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Black Holes Could Work as Time Machines — If You Want to Die

05/29/2023 — ever do. What are black holes? A black hole is an extremely massive object that is typically formed when a dying star collapses in on itself. Like planets and stars
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Cosmic Object 10 Million Times Brighter Than The Sun Seems to Defy Physics

05/11/2023 — falls inward toward a massive object , such as a black hole or a dead star. As it's pulled by the object's intense gravity, the material heats up and radiates light. The
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The most elusive black holes in the universe could lurk at the Milky Way's center

04/14/2023 — capture a wandering dense remnant (like a smaller black hole, a neutron star , or a white dwarf), the process will emit gravitational waves that LISA can potentially
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Plasma-Spewing Quasar Shines Light on Early Galaxy Formation

04/28/2023 — discovered quasar, called PSO J352.4034-15.3373, is one of a rare breed that doesn’t just swallow matter into the black hole but also emits a jet of plasma traveling at speeds
Blogs and journals > Science Times

Supermassive Black Hole Captured Swallowing a Star About 137 Million Light-Years Away; It's the Closest Scientists Have Ever Seen

05/02/2023 — Astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole catching and consuming a star, at closer proximity than ever before. According to Science Alert , the event occurred
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The first black hole portrait got sharper thanks to machine learning

04/14/2023 — supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87, revealing a thinner halo of glowing gas than seen previously. In 2019, scientists with the Event Horizon Telescope
Blogs and journals > What's Up With That?

Open Thread

05/28/2023 — Hat. The starting of this stems from the well-known fact that the mass of a Black Hole is proportional to the radius of the Event Horizon. Taken to an extreme the
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Astronomers capture first image of jet being launched from edge of black hole

04/26/2023 — powerful jet being launched from the edge of a black hole’s event horizon into intergalactic space. The observations of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87
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NASA's Fermi Detects 1st Gamma-Ray Eclipses From 'Spider' Star Systems

01/30/2023 — was 2.4 times the Sun’s. That would make B1957 the heaviest-known pulsar, straddling the theoretical mass limit between pulsar and black hole. By looking at the Fermi data
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Imaging Reanalyses of EHT Data

02/14/2023 — Supermassive Black Hole EHT Collaboration, 2019, ApJL, 875, 6, First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI. The Shadow and Mass of the Central Black Hole Arras et al, 2022
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Harvard’s BHI is Funded for Three More Years by the John Templeton Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

03/30/2023 — related to black holes. The BHI also acted as the headquarters for the operations of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) , which successfully realized the first direct image of
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Astronomers Discover a Mysterious Lonely Galaxy 9.2 Billion Light-Years Away

05/12/2023 — contains a quasar, a supermassive black hole pulling in gas at the center of the galaxy and driving powerful jets of matter seen in radio waves. This result made with NASA’s
Press releases > American Astronomical Society press releases

AAS Names Additional Recipients of 2022 Awards & Prizes

05/01/2023 — innovative and sustained contributions to high-energy astrophysics. Dr. Kara’s pioneering work includes high-impact studies of the plasma around black hole systems and the first
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Violent origins of gravitational waves probed by new telescope array

05/17/2023 — gravitational waves from other black hole mergers, neutron star mergers and even collisions between black holes and neutron stars (which are the super-dense corpses of
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