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Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before

January 27, 2022

A team mapping radio waves in the Universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour, and it’s unlike anything astronomers have seen before. The team who discovered it think it could be a neutron star or a white dwarf—collapsed cores of stars—with an ultra-powerful magnetic field.

Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before

Star in closest orbit ever seen around black hole

March 14, 2017

Astronomers have found evidence of a star that whips around a likely black hole twice an hour. This could be the tightest orbital dance ever seen by a black hole and a companion star in our own Milky Way galaxy.

Star in closest orbit ever seen around black hole