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Black Hole Bonanza! Dozens (Potentially) Found In Andromeda As Another Study Probes X-Rays

June 17, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter More than two DOZEN potential black holes have been found in the nearest galaxy to our own. As if that find wasn’t enough, another research group is teaching us why extremely high-energy X-rays are present in black holes. Remove this ad

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How Much Light Has The Universe Created Since the Big Bang?

May 27, 2013

The universe, most cosmologists tell us, began with a bang. At some point, the lights turned on. How much light has the universe produced since it was born, 13.8 billion years ago? It seems a difficult answer at first glance. Turn on a light bulb, turn it off and the photons appear to vanish. In [...]

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New Image Shows Beautiful Violence in Centaurus A

April 4, 2012

The mysterious galaxy Centaurus A is a great place to study the extreme processes that occur near super-massive black holes, scientists say, and this beautiful new image from the combined forces of the Herschel Space Observatory and the XMM-Newton x-ray satellite reveals energetic processes going on deep in the galaxy’s core. This beautiful image tells [...]

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Supernova G350 Kicks Up Some X-Ray Dust

February 2, 2012

Located some 14,700 light years from the Earth toward the center of our galaxy, a newly photographed supernova remnant cataloged as G350.1+0.3 is making astronomers scratch their heads. The star which created this unusual visage is suspected to have blown its top some 600 to 1,200 years ago. Although it would have been as bright [...]

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