supermassive black holes
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New Image Exposes Intense Magnetic Field of the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
A new image of our galaxy’s central black hole reveals the magnetic field surrounding the object in polarized light. The image reveals how gas and superheated matter in the immediate vicinity of the black hole move around it. But aside from that, it’s a great way to visualize the extreme physics happening at the center…
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NASA Visualisation Shows Black Holes Dancing with Stars
A new video from NASA shows what it looks like when a star is caught in the powerful gravity of a black hole. In these binary systems, the doomed stars spin around the black holes, which steadily suck up gas from them. The visualisation illustrates the variety of these parasitic partnerships in our galactic backyard,…
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One Day, Black Holes Will Be All That’s Left of This Star Cluster
Some 80,000 light-years away, a group of black holes is slowly becoming the only show in town, according to a team of astronomers that recently modelled a globular cluster called Palomar 5. The cluster, which has streams of stars issuing from two arms on either side of it, will eventually be solely constituted by black…
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You Cannot Conceive Of The Hugeness Of This Black Hole
Oh my, this recently discovered black hole… well, it’s big.