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'Cosmic Horseshoe' may contain black hole the size of 36 billion suns — one of the largest ever detected
The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...
Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
One of the most massive black holes in the universe lurks at the center of the Cosmic Horseshoe
In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...
Astronomers Just Found a Star System That Shouldn’t Exist Near a Supermassive Black Hole
A team of astronomers has found the first binary star system, D9, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Previously ...
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Milky Way's Massive Black Hole Spaghettified Filament Of Gas
A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...
Astronomy: Black hole in satellite galaxy hurls stars into Milky Way
At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...
Scientists Just Found 300 of Some of the Rarest Black Holes in the Universe
DESI, which will be scanning the sky for five more years, is expected to observe around 40 million galaxies and quasars ...
Breakthrough enables measurement of local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements
Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ...
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Black Holes
be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way ...