March 20, 2013
A group of telescopes and astronomers have worked together to help identify a star and a black hole that orbit each other at the dizzying rate of once every 2.4 hours, smashing the previous record by nearly an hour. Remove this ad
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December 13, 2012
NGC 3627 glows in the combined light of Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer and the Very Large Telescope in this image. Astronomers conducted a survey of 62 galaxies, including NGC 3627 to study monster black holes at their centers. It’s not just pretty, it’s science. Like a starry watercolor, astronomers combining light from Earth and space-based observatories [...]
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