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NASA's planet hunter finds a black hole ripping apart a star
TESS, NASA's $ 200 million telescope, observes a black hole about 600 million times more massive than the Sun.
A mysterious 'black hole' appeared on the largest planet in the Solar System
The photo taken of Jupiter startled viewers because of a very large black streak, appearing on the surface of this planet like a
Admire the youngest and smallest black hole in the universe
With the help of the Chandra X-ray Observatory astronomers, NASA scientists have found evidence of the existence of a black hole ...
The largest solar system outside the solar system revolves around two stars
The American Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) announced on June 13 that it had discovered the largest planet outside the solar system, also known…
NASA captures the 'immortal god of death' of the universe
Scientists detected unusual signals that resembled flashing lights,
Is there a 'black hole solar system' that owns ... 10,000 planets?
A study just published online on arxiv.org has confirmed the ability to form a giant solar system with the parent star is a ... black hole monster.
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NASA's 'oldest' Mars orbiter has not run out of fuel yet
An error in calculating the remaining fuel of the 22-year-old Mars Odyssey orbiter had experts thinking it was about to end its mission.
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Neutron stars shake understanding of black holes
A newly observed neutron star merger has cast doubt on the previously known mechanism of black hole formation.
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NASA Robot Takes First Photo of Sunbeam on Mars
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) posted a panoramic image of a Martian sunset taken by the Curiosity rover, made up of 28 small images.
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How many planets are there in the universe?
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James Webb Telescope Reveals Secrets of the Universe: Was the Big Bang Just a Man's Imagination?
How did the universe come into being? This is one of the oldest and most intractable questions in human history.
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Could our entire universe be inside a black hole?
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Shocking theory: The mysterious 9th planet in the Solar System could be a black hole
Some astronomers have just hypothesized that the mysterious 9th planet in the Solar System may not be a planet, but actually a primitive black hole.
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14 things you may not know about the universe
If humans do not wear protective gear in the universe, the water in their mouths, eyes and soft tissues will evaporate instantly, while the skin burns badly from exposur…
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Amazing images: The telescope caught 4.4 million 'monsters' from black holes to galaxies
Scientists have used the LOFAR Low-Frequency Radio Telescope Array to map more than a quarter of the northern sky as seen from Earth, revealing a series of stunning cosm…
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NASA discovered more than 100 planets outside the Solar System
On July 18, an international team of scientists announced that 104 more planets outside the Solar System have been discovered, of which four planets may have Earth-like…
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Super black hole massacred stars in the universe
British scientists in the new study, published in the journal Nature, report that stars are attracted to black holes (TDE), which occur at a frequency many times greater…
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NASA announces a map of 4,000 planets outside the Solar System
Over the past few decades, from the point of view around the Solar System, we now know thousands of planets outside the solar system.
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NASA uses Google's AI to find the eighth planet in a distant solar system
Researchers from the US aerospace agency (NASA) and technology giant Google have joined hands to teach a computer how to handle large amounts of data generated from the…
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Catching a super rare scene in the universe: Super giant black hole is swallowing up a star
The cosmic black hole - for those who don't know - is a spaceless space with enormous mass, but compressed into a very narrow space.
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New history page about black holes (part I)
The cosmic black hole had to endure bad reputation. Newspapers accuse them of gravity monsters, astronomers have labeled them nicknames who like to hide themselves, and…
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New history page about black holes (part II)
According to Martin Haehnelt of Cambridge University, simulations of the evolutionary process began to emerge in the mid-1990s when researchers found but the clue shows…
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New history page about black holes (part III)
Scientists have envisioned galaxies forming along a monolithic collapse path, in which a giant gas cloud bursts from within.
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NASA mapped black holes in the universe
Scientists from the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) have used SWIFT satellites to capture space in many angles and map black holes in distances of less than 400 million light…