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Black Hole Outburst Caught on Video

June 2, 2020

Astronomers have caught a black hole hurling hot material into space at close to the speed of light. This flare-up was captured in a new…

Black Hole Outburst Caught on Video

ALMA explores a Cosmic Jellyfish

October 1, 2019

One of the closest jellyfish galaxies to us, the Norma cluster galaxy ESO 137-001, was recently fully mapped using ALMA and other telescopes.

ALMA explores a Cosmic Jellyfish

Clandestine Black Hole May Represent New Population

June 28, 2016

Astronomers have combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to conclude that a peculiar source of radio waves thought to be a distant galaxy is actually a nearby binary star system containing a low-mass star and a black hole.

Clandestine Black Hole May Represent New Population