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NASA X-ray telescope Chandra discovers black holes 'blow' on their food to cool it down
Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.
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Supermassive black hole captured in an unexpected spin shift
New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...
What is the M87 Black Hole?
Messier 87 (M87), also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It is one ...
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Hubble Image of Messier 87 (M87) (IMAGE)
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant galaxy M87 shows a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy's 6.5-billion-solar-mass central black hole. The blowtorch-like jet ...
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M87* observations catch the black hole's turbulent accretion flow
Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 (M87*). This study ...
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Event Horizon Telescope took first image of a black hole — here's how
It's about 6.5 billion times as massive as our Sun — that's enormous even compared to other supermassive black holes and lives in the center of the Messier 87 galaxy. And as far as experts can ...
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This is the first photo from the spacecraft NASA will ram into an asteroid
This photo gave us another look at Messier 38, roughly 4,200 light-years from Earth. NASA says the team intentionally captured stars around Messier 38 to help determine imperfections in the image.