An animation showing the Cygnus X-1 system, consisting of a black hole in orbit with a giant star. Recent observations by radio telescopes have found the system is 20 per cent further away than ...
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NASA's Hubble and Chandra telescopes discover a strange 'sideways' black hole in a cosmic crime scene (image)Probing a distant galaxy like a "cosmic crime scene" with the Hubble Space Telescope after a "tip-off" from the Chandra X-ray telescope, NASA scientists have discovered a strange black hole that ...
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Astronomers Just Mapped the ‘Invisible’ Corona of Black Holes — Here’s Why It MattersThe breakthrough offers new insights into the feeding mechanisms of black holes, from stellar-mass systems like Cygnus X-1 to supermassive giants at the centers of distant galaxies. The Mysterious ...
To celebrate the Hubble ... important pictures it took in 2020—and they’re all out of this world. Galaxy IC 5063 casts a long shadow: Dust clouds near its central black hole create a cosmic ...
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