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Innovation Nation - Black Holes
Steve Eikenberry is on the hunt for black holes, investigating why there seem to be super massive black holes at the center of most, if not all galaxies, and what powers them. See how he does it in this episode of Innovation Nation with...
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THE UNIVERSE WAVES HELLO
In episode 41, Charlie and Jordan explore the biggest news story of our century so far: the detection of gravitational waves. Confirmed this week, the discovery was made in September 2015 almost exactly 100 years after Einstein proposed...
Financial Times
How scientists took first picture of a black hole
The FT's science editor Clive Cookson explains how astronomers saw 'the unseeable' - a black hole 53m light years away.
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NASA's NICER Tests Matter's Limits
Matter in the hearts of neutron stars – dense remnants of exploded massive stars – takes the most extreme form we can measure. Now, thanks to data from NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), an X-ray telescope on the...
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NASA's Fermi Mission Shows How Luck Favors the Prepared
In 2017, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope played a pivotal role in two important breakthroughs occurring just five weeks apart. But what might seem like extraordinary good luck is really the product of research, analysis,...
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NASA's Fermi Finds the Farthest Blazars
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a type of galaxy whose intense emissions are powered by supersized black holes. Light from the most distant object began its journey to us when the...
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NASA | Beyond Einstein: Part II
View "Beyond Einstein: Part I" at:Albert Einstein's theories rank among humanity's greatest achievements. They sparked the scientific revolution of the 20th Century. In their attempts to understand how space, time and matter are...
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Supercomputer Simulations Test Star-destroying Black Holes
Watch as eight stars skirt a black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun in these supercomputer simulations. As they approach, all are stretched and deformed by the black hole’s gravity. Some are completely pulled apart into a long...
NASA
OSIRIS-REx Observes a Black Hole
University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made an unexpected detection of a phenomenon 30,000 light-years away. Last fall, the student-built Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer...
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NASA | RXTE Satellite Catches the Beat of a Midsize Black Hole
Astronomers from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have uncovered rhythmic pulsations from a rare breed of black hole in archival data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)...
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NASA | NASA's Fermi Shows How Active Galaxies Can Be
Active galaxies called blazars make up the largest class of objects detected by Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT). Massive black holes in the hearts of these galaxies fire particle jets in our direction. Fermi team member Elizabeth Hays...
NASA
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 58, SOFIA Airborne Observatory Small Steps, Giant Leaps
SOFIA Project Scientist Naseem Rangwala discusses the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.
Curated Video
Aviation Illusions: The Peculiar Sensory Phenomenon Pilots Face
Flying a plane comes with its own set of unique sensory illusions. Learn about the cause and effect of some of these illusions, from the Graveyard Spiral to the Black Hole Effect. Illusions part 7/11
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What do we know about black holes?
What do we know about black holes? Joe Pesce, a National Science Foundation astrophysicist, answers the question on this edition of "Ask a Scientist."
NASA
Swift Links Neutrino to Star-destroying Black Hole
For only the second time, astronomers have linked an elusive particle called a high-energy neutrino to an object outside our galaxy. Using ground- and space-based facilities, including NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, they traced...
Next Animation Studio
Giant black hole 12 billion times bigger than the sun is baffling scientists
The discovery of a giant black hole which is growing faster than usual challenges our current theories of black hole expansion.
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NASA’s Fermi Links Ghost Particle to Galaxy
Nearly 10 billion years ago, the black hole at the center of a distant galaxy produced a powerful outburst, and light from this blast began arriving at Earth in 2012. Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and...
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NASA | What is Fermi?
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is a NASA observatory designed to reveal the high-energy universe in never-before-seen detail. With Fermi, astronomers have a unique tool to explore high-energy processes associated with solar flares,...
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NASA | Radio Telescopes Capture Best-Ever Snapshot of a Black Hole's Jet
Centaurus A is a giant elliptical active galaxy 12 million light years away. Radio and X-ray images reveal features associated with jets emanating from near the galaxy's central supermassive black hole, which has a mass of 55 million...
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NASA's Curious Universe: Bonus: Still Curious?
At NASA, we are driven by curiosity, and we know you are too! Join us as we hear from our previous episode experts about what they’re interested in and answer some questions from listeners like you. What are you still curious about?
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NASA's Fermi Links Cosmic Neutrino to Monster Black Hole
For the first time ever, scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found the source of a high-energy neutrino from outside our galaxy. This neutrino traveled 3.7 billion years at nearl-light speed before being detected...
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NASA | Our Violent Universe
Our universe is more than a serene landscape of stars--it is teeming with activity from some extremely violent events. In a presentation at the IMAX theatre at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. on...
Curated Video
Bash Shell Scripting - Standard I/O Concepts
This video explains the standard concepts of I/O. This clip is from the chapter "Standard I/O Concepts" of the series "Mastering Bash Shell Scripting: Automate your daily tasks [Updated for 2021]".This section focuses on standard I/O...
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Black Hole Researchers Katie Bouman and Colin Lonsdale Answer Your Questions
On April 10, a team of international scientists from Event Horizon Telescope project unveiled the first ever image of a black hole at the center of the M87* galaxy. We invited computer scientist Dr. Katie Bouman and astronomer Dr. Colin...