Was 49 is the name of a system consisting of a large disk galaxy, referred to as Was 49a, merging with a much smaller “dwarf” galaxy called Was 49b. The dwarf galaxy rotates within the larger galaxy’s disk, about 26,000 ...
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Star Discovered in Closest Known Orbit Around Likely Black Hole
This discovery was made using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as NASA’s NuSTAR and CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), Joinfo.com reports. The close-in stellar couple – known as a binary – is located in the globular cluster 47 ...
Read More »NASA Telescope Spots Temperature Swings of Black Hole Winds For The First Time
The winds, according to new measurements of a nearby supermassive black hole obtained with NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) telescope, can heat up and cool down in the span of just a few hours. The black hole is located ...
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