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4 days ago

3,000-light-year-long jet offers new clues to first black hole ever imaged

Probable base of M87*'s 3,000-light-year jet identified on the black hole's glowing ring using Event Horizon Telescope observations.
fromwww.nature.com
2 months ago

This Dying Star Just Sent Out the Universe's Loudest Goodbye

Black holes can get energy boosts by snacking', although their dish of choice is rather different from our own. Analysis suggests that the most luminous burst of light ever detected from a black hole a fireworks show that was, at its peak, more than 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun flared up as the black hole gobbled up a star that was at least 30 times as massive as the Sun. The findings were published on 4 November in Nature Astronomy.
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