The super powerful explosion of the star lasted only 40 seconds, but it emitted just as much energy as the sun will radiate throughout its lifetime, Joinfo.com reports with reference to AD.nl. It was a combination of a luck and ...
Read More »Collapsing Star Gives Birth to a Black Hole
Astronomers have watched as a massive, dying star was likely reborn as a black hole. It took the combined power of the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), and NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to go looking for remnants of the ...
Read More »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 »Hubble shows a young star’s fingerprint
Showcased at the center of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an emission-line star known as IRAS 12196-6300, NASA reports. Located just under 2,300 light-years from Earth, this star displays prominent emission lines, meaning that the star’s light, dispersed ...
Read More »Massive black hole devours a star, returning leftovers
For the first time, researchers were able to watch both a black hole devouring a star and jets of debris shooting out from the black hole as result of the star’s demise, researchers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy ...
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