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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…
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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…
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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.
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Discover hundreds of black holes in the universe
French astrophysicists have identified hundreds of quasars, meaning the supermassive black hole emits strong energy hidden in sandy galaxies. These black holes are known…
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Basic constants are almost constant
The idea of actual fundamental constants is not constant in space and time has long haunted physicists' minds. But by tracking how a distant galaxy absorbs light from…
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The first three black holes appear in the universe
The Southern European Hemisphere Research Organization (ESO) says it has discovered three surprisingly large black holes near each other and forms a large mass of celest…
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Discover the first quasar
At the American Astronomical Society conference in Seattle, astronomers said they had just discovered the first quasar. Initially, the researchers thought that the trio…
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The moment the Sun rises on the Moon
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From natural nuclear furnace to parallel universe!
In 1974, a strange phenomenon was discovered: The U235 isotope composition in natural Uranium at Oklo mine, Gabon is much smaller than normal. Can explain this strange p…