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Star Gives Birth to Possible Black Hole in Hubble and Spitzer Images
A team of astronomers at The Ohio State University watched a star disappear and possibly become a black hole. Instead of becoming a black hole through the expected process of a supernova, the black hole candidate formed through a "failed...
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TESS Completes its Primary Mission
On July 4, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) completed its primary mission, a two-year-long survey that imaged about 75% of the starry sky. In capturing this giant mosaic, TESS has found 66 new exoplanets, or worlds...
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Scientists identifies new class of celestial objects near the galactic black hole
Scientists identified a new class of celestial bodies near the Sagittarius A, the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole.
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NASA | A Black Widow Pulsar Consumes its Mate
Black widow spiders and their Australian cousins, known as redbacks, are notorious for an unsettling tendency to kill and devour their male partners. Astronomers have noted similar behavior among two rare breeds of binary system that...
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NASA | Fermi Sharpens its High-Energy View - 4K
Major improvements to methods used to process observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have yielded an expanded, higher-quality set of data that allows astronomers to produce the most detailed census of the sky yet made...
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NASA | Peer into a Simulated Stellar-mass Black Hole
Music: "Lost in Space" by Lars Leonhard, courtesy of artist. This animation of supercomputer data takes you to the inner zone of the accretion disk of a stellar-mass black hole. Gas heated to 20 million degrees F as it spirals toward the...
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¿Qué son los agujeros negros?
Einstein los predijo. ¿Cómo se forman? ¿Qué son exactamente los hoyos negros? Albert Einstein propuso la Teoría General de la Relatividad en 1915, que unifica espacio y tiempo y describe la gravedad como la curvatura del espacio-tiempo....
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NASA | Simulations Uncover 'Flashy' Secrets of Merging Black Holes
According to Einstein, whenever massive objects interact, they produce gravitational waves -- distortions in the very fabric of space and time -- that ripple outward across the universe at the speed of light. While astronomers have found...
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Hubble telescope finds most distant star ever seen
Astronomers have sighted the outermost star the in known universe. Icarus, or LS1, is 9 billion years from Earth. Hubble saw it because of gravitational lensing, where distant star light is bent and magnified via the gravity of a passing...
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Quasars Can Trigger Tsunamis That Tear Across Galaxies And Snuff Out Star Formation
Quasar black holes emit radiation so powerful that they can prevent star formation in the surrounding galaxy, according to a study in the Astrophysical Journal Supplementary Letters.
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5 Things: Black Holes
Black holes are one of the most mysterious objects in the universe. 🌌 Here are five things to know! Have questions about black holes on #BlackFriday? 🕳️ Leave your questions in the comments below! Join NASA Goddard scientists later today...
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NASA | Animation: NASA's Swift Satellite Spots Black Hole Devouring A Star
In late March 2011, NASA's Swift satellite alerted astronomers to intense and unusual high-energy flares from a new source in the constellation Draco. They soon realized that the source, which is now known as Swift J1644+57, was the...
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Mini-Jet Found Near Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Our Milky Way’s central black hole has a leak! This supermassive black hole, over 4 million times more massive than our Sun, looks like it still has the remnants of a blowtorch-like jet dating back several thousand years. NASA’s Hubble...
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Space Vocabulary And Game For Kids | 4K
Hi all 👨🏼🚀🚀 Let's learn some vocabulary about space. A fun, educational space themed video for children. Perfect for space loving preschoolers and elementary aged kids. Start by learning the names of things in space then play our space...
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LIGO Feel That Space (The Weeknd Parody)
A celebration and explanation of LIGO's detection of gravitation waves from two merging black holes, to the tune of The Weeknd's "I Can't Feel My Face"
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Hubble’s Servicing Mission 4 Celebrates its Ten-Year Anniversary
On May 11, 2009, the brave crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off to make NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope more powerful than ever before. Hubble's Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) was the most ambitious and complicated to date. Changing out...
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NASA | Massive Black Hole Shreds Passing Star
This artist’s rendering illustrates new findings about a star shredded by a black hole. When a star wanders too close to a black hole, intense tidal forces rip the star apart. In these events, called “tidal disruptions,” some of the...
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NASA | Fermi Traces a Celestial Spirograph
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. Its wide-eyed Large Area Telescope (LAT) sweeps across the entire sky every three hours,...
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Hubble Science: Black Holes, From Myth to Reality
For the past 30 years the Hubble Space Telescope has continued its important mission of uncovering the mysteries of the universe. One of those mysteries that Hubble has helped us understand is black holes. Director, Producer & Editor:...
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NASA’s Black Hole Field Guide: Episode 4 - Social Supermassive Black Holes
It’s not just smaller black holes that have all the fun – really, really massive black holes also enjoy being the center of attention! Watch this chapter to learn more about these giant black holes and all their companions! Music:...
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NASA's Guide To Black Hole Safety
Have you ever thought about visiting a black hole? We sure hope not. However, if you're absolutely convinced that a black hole is your ideal vacation spot, watch this video before you blast off to learn more about them and (more...
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NASA’s Black Hole Field Guide: Episode 3 - Social Black Holes
Watching black holes by themselves is fun, but what about ones that like being more social? Some black holes really LOVE to dance with other objects in the universe. Learn more about them by watching this helpful video! Music: "Tango...
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NASA | Neutron Stars Rip Each Other Apart to Form Black Hole
This supercomputer simulation shows one of the most violent events in the universe: a pair of neutron stars colliding, merging and forming a black hole. A neutron star is the compressed core left behind when a star born with between...