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NASA's Curious Universe: Inside a Black Hole
Don't let the name fool you: a black hole is anything but empty space. Black holes are some of the most extreme, bizarre and fascinating objects in the universe. Regina Caputo and Jeremy Schnittman describe what it might be like to go...
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Scientists discover extremely massive black hole
Researchers have discovered a massive black hole 15,000 light years from Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Evidence for the hypothetical existence of Planet 9 increases
Evidence of the existence of a ninth planet in our solar system is unlikely to be a fluke, according to a pre-print of a California Institute of Technology study.
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Hubble finds a Black Hole Igniting Star Formation in a Dwarf Galaxy
Black holes are often described as the monsters of the universe—tearing apart stars, consuming anything that comes too close, and holding light captive. Detailed evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, however, shows a black hole in...
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X-ray Echoes Map a Black Hole’s Disk
Some 3.9 billion years ago in the heart of a distant galaxy, the tidal pull of a monster black hole shredded a star that wandered too close. X-rays produced in this event first reached Earth on March 28, 2011, when they were detected by...
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NASA | X-ray 'Echoes' Probe Habitat of Monster Black Hole
Astronomers using data from the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite have found a long-sought X-ray signal from NGC 4151, a galaxy that contains a supermassive black hole. The discovery promises a new way to unravel what's...
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How do you find a black hole?
How do you find a black hole? Dr. Andrea Ghez answers your question in this special “Mysteries of the Cosmos” edition of Ask a Scientist.
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What is a black hole?
What is a black hole? Hans Krimm, an observational astronomer at the National Science Foundation, answers the question on this edition of "Ask a Scientist."
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NASA | Blazar Bonanza
A long time ago in a galaxy half the universe away, a flood of high-energy gamma rays began its journey to Earth. When they arrived in April, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope caught the outburst, which helped two ground-based...
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How the Event Horizon Telescope took first ever image of a black hole
Brief oveview of the Event Horizon telescope with a simple explanation of how the EHT works and the black hole image it captured. Includes a soundbite with the National Science Foundation director and the Event Horizon Telescope director.
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NASA | Highlights of Swift's Decade of Discovery
NASA's Swift satellite rode to orbit aboard a Delta II rocket on November 20, 2004, and it's still going strong. Swift's unique instrumentation allows it to quickly locate an interesting high-energy outburst, automatically determine its...
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Discussion and Q&A: The Future of Europe 6/6
Discussion and Q&A at the panel entitled "The Future of Europe" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in Berlin. April 13, 2012. #inetberlin
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Innovation Nation - Black Holes
Steve Eikenberry is on the hunt for black holes, investigating why there seem to be super massive black holes at the center of most, if not all galaxies, and what powers them. See how he does it in this episode of Innovation Nation with...
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THE UNIVERSE WAVES HELLO
In episode 41, Charlie and Jordan explore the biggest news story of our century so far: the detection of gravitational waves. Confirmed this week, the discovery was made in September 2015 almost exactly 100 years after Einstein proposed...
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How scientists took first picture of a black hole
The FT's science editor Clive Cookson explains how astronomers saw 'the unseeable' - a black hole 53m light years away.
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NASA's NICER Tests Matter's Limits
Matter in the hearts of neutron stars – dense remnants of exploded massive stars – takes the most extreme form we can measure. Now, thanks to data from NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), an X-ray telescope on the...
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NASA's Fermi Mission Shows How Luck Favors the Prepared
In 2017, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope played a pivotal role in two important breakthroughs occurring just five weeks apart. But what might seem like extraordinary good luck is really the product of research, analysis,...
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NASA's Fermi Finds the Farthest Blazars
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a type of galaxy whose intense emissions are powered by supersized black holes. Light from the most distant object began its journey to us when the...
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NASA | Beyond Einstein: Part II
View "Beyond Einstein: Part I" at:Albert Einstein's theories rank among humanity's greatest achievements. They sparked the scientific revolution of the 20th Century. In their attempts to understand how space, time and matter are...
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Supercomputer Simulations Test Star-destroying Black Holes
Watch as eight stars skirt a black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun in these supercomputer simulations. As they approach, all are stretched and deformed by the black hole’s gravity. Some are completely pulled apart into a long...
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OSIRIS-REx Observes a Black Hole
University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made an unexpected detection of a phenomenon 30,000 light-years away. Last fall, the student-built Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer...
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NASA | RXTE Satellite Catches the Beat of a Midsize Black Hole
Astronomers from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have uncovered rhythmic pulsations from a rare breed of black hole in archival data from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)...
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NASA | NASA's Fermi Shows How Active Galaxies Can Be
Active galaxies called blazars make up the largest class of objects detected by Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT). Massive black holes in the hearts of these galaxies fire particle jets in our direction. Fermi team member Elizabeth Hays...
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 58, SOFIA Airborne Observatory Small Steps, Giant Leaps
SOFIA Project Scientist Naseem Rangwala discusses the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.