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The densely packed globular cluster NGC 6325 glistens in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. This concentrated group of stars lies around 26,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. Cohen) The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of a distant cluster of stars […]
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The thought of a runaway black hole zooming through the cosmos is a bit unsettling. However, a new finding from Hubble’s observations shows that not only is a ‘monster’ black hole speeding through space without a home galaxy, but it also isn’t taking time to snack on any nearby planets or stars in the process. […]
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have recorded a star’s final moments in detail as it gets gobbled up by a black hole. Updated Jan 15, 2023 | 06:47 PM IST Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough, the black […]
AUSTIN (KXAN) – NASA announced this week that the Hubble Space Telescope detected what might be a wandering “black hole” nearly 5,000 light-years away in the Milky Way Galaxy. The discovery led NASA to believe that the nearest black hole may be only 80 light-years away. The closest . . .
Research Box Title Astronomers estimate that 100 million black holes roam among the stars in our Milky Way galaxy, but they have never conclusively identified an isolated black hole. Following six years of meticulous observations, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has, for the first time ever, provided direct evidence for a lone black hole drifting through […]
An illustration of what GNz7q might have once looked like. Though they’re extremely rare, examples of both dusty starburst galaxies and luminous quasars have been detected in the early universe. The team believes that GNz7q could be the “missing link” between these two classes of objects. ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe […]
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