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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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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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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...
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Explore New Hubble Images of Celestial Objects From the Caldwell Catalog
Hubble turned 30 this year, and it has a birthday present to share with you! Newly released Hubble images of 30 celestial objects from the Caldwell Catalog show stunning cosmic sights, many of which you can see with a backyard telescope!...
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TESS Catches its First Star-destroying Black Hole
For the first time, NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) watched a black hole tear apart a star from start to finish, a cataclysmic phenomenon called a tidal disruption event. The blast, named ASASSN-19bt,...
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NASA’s Black Hole Field Guide: Episode 1 - Basic Black Holes
If you’re looking to find some black holes, it’s always helpful to know exactly what you’re looking for! To get started on your black hole hunt, first watch this handy video to learn the basics about these strange cosmic objects. Music:...
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NASA | Swift: A Decade of Game-changing Astrophysics
Over the past decade, NASA's Swift Gamma-ray Burst Explorer has proven itself to be one of the most versatile astrophysics missions ever flown. It remains the only satellite capable of precisely locating gamma-ray bursts -- the...
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Hubble’s 29th Year in Orbit
On April 24, 2019, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrated its 29th year in orbit by premiering a never-before-seen view of the Southern Crab Nebula. Even after all these years, Hubble continues to uncover the mysteries of the universe....
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Swift, TESS Catch Eruptions From an Active Galaxy
Using data from facilities including NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), scientists have studied 20 instances and counting of regular outbursts of an event called ASASSN-14ko....
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I WONDER - Can You See A Blackhole?
This video is answering the question of can you see a blackhole.
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NASA | Black Hole Launches 'Bullets' of Gas.
Using observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope, an international team of astronomers has identified the moment when...
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NASA | Best-Ever View of the High-Energy Gamma-ray Sky - 4K
This image, constructed from more than six years of observations by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, is the first to show how the entire sky appears at energies between 50 billion (GeV) and 2 trillion electron volts (TeV). A...
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‘Impossibly big’ black hole not as big as previously calculated
Two new studies have called into question the size of the “impossibly big” black hole named LB-1.
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NASA | RXTE Detects 'Heartbeat' Of Smallest Black Hole Candidate
This animation compares the X-ray 'heartbeats' of GRS 1915 and IGR J17091, two black holes that ingest gas from companion stars. GRS 1915 has nearly five times the mass of IGR J17091, which at three solar masses may be the smallest black...
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360-degree Simulated View of the Sky Between Two Supermassive Black Holes
This 360-degree video places the viewer in the middle of two circling supermassive black holes. The simulation shows how the black holes distort the starry background and capture light, producing black hole silhouettes. A distinctive...