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fromFuturism
5 days ago

NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge Evil Eye

An X-ray emitting object among little red dots indicates a previously unseen, extreme stage of supermassive black hole evolution.
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fromFuturism
2 months ago

NASA Spots Sun-like Star Inflating Massive Bubble

Astronomers detected the first astrosphere around a Sun-like star using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, revealing how stellar winds create protective bubbles similar to our Sun's heliosphere.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
3 months ago

This baby cluster' of galaxies in the early universe is mystifying astronomers

Protocluster JADES-ID1, containing at least 66 galaxies and hot X-ray–emitting gas, existed scarcely a billion years after the Big Bang.
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fromBig Think
4 months ago

NASA watched this supernova blast expand for 25 years

Kepler's supernova remnant shows asymmetric expansion observed by Chandra over 25 years, with shockwave speeds ranging from 1,800 to 6,200 km/s.
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fromMail Online
7 months ago

Scientists baffled by black hole growing at 2.4x the theoretical limit

Supermassive black hole RACS J0320-35, about a billion solar masses and 12.8 billion light-years away, is accreting at 2.4 times the theoretical limit.
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