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Observe the disk of light around the black hole
Space science

Observe the disk of light around the black hole

For the first time, an international research team found a way to observe gradual accretion disks around the black hole and verify that their electromagnetic spectrum ma…

December 17, 2018
Detecting cosmic ghosts in the night sky
Space science

Detecting cosmic ghosts in the night sky

When Yale University astronomer Kevin Schawinski and Oxford University associates won public support for enrolling galaxies, they never envisioned the strange object Han…

December 17, 2018
Silent explosion happens in the universe
Space science

Silent explosion happens in the universe

A group of European astronomers provided information that recent supernovae are not as normal as we thought. Instead, the star is said to have exploded and fell into a b…

December 17, 2018
The Earth will not be destroyed
Space science

The Earth will not be destroyed

Will the black hole swallow the earth? Forget it and continue to pay your mortgage, of course if you have land to pay taxes.

December 17, 2018
Quasars: 'final test' for relativity?
Space science

Quasars: 'final test' for relativity?

Until now astronomers have received very convincing evidence that objects of high mass bend space-time significantly, according to the predictions of general relativity.

December 17, 2018
New discovery of black hole activity
Space science

New discovery of black hole activity

Using a powerful optical telescope, researchers at Boston University (USA) captured an image of a supermassive black hole while they spewed extremely powerful charged mo…

December 17, 2018
The giant black hole in the Milky Way
Space science

The giant black hole in the Milky Way

Using the X-ray satellites of NASA, Japan and Europe, a group of Japanese astronomers discovered the central black hole of our galaxy that once emitted a very powerful e…

December 17, 2018
Is there a black hole that will swallow Earth?
Space science

Is there a black hole that will swallow Earth?

Will our green planet disappear because of a cosmic black hole created by humans right in the middle of peaceful Switzerland? There are currently two scientists pursuing…

December 17, 2018
The smallest black hole has ever been recorded
Space science

The smallest black hole has ever been recorded

Using a new method, two NASA scientists have identified the lightest black hole ever known. With a mass of about 3.8 times heavier than the Sun and only about 15 miles i…

December 17, 2018
The chaos in black holes
Space science

The chaos in black holes

A black hole may contain many chaos of all stars in a galaxy. New research can explain the above reason, establishing the correspondence with some distorted chaos in the…

December 17, 2018
The formation of 'dark stars' in the universe
Space science

The formation of 'dark stars' in the universe

A recent study found that the first stars in the universe could be gigantic but not as bright as today's stars. In essence, it is called 'dark star' and formed due to pe…

December 17, 2018