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Quick Look: On the Hunt for a Missing Giant Black Hole (12-17-2020)
Despite searching with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have no evidence that a distant black hole estimated to weigh billions of times the mass of the Sun is anywhere to be found.
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Despite searching with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have no evidence that a distant black hole estimated to weigh billions of times the mass of the Sun is anywhere to be found.
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Quick Look: Black Hole Fails to Do Its Job (08-03-2020)
Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster.
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Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster.
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Tour: Black Hole Fails to Do Its Job (08-03-2020)
Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster.
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Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster.
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A Quick Look at Bending the Bridge Between Two Galaxy Clusters (05-11-2020)
Several hundred million years ago, two galaxy clusters collided and then passed through each other. This mighty event released a flood of hot gas from each galaxy cluster that formed an unusual bridge between the two objects.
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Several hundred million years ago, two galaxy clusters collided and then passed through each other. This mighty event released a flood of hot gas from each galaxy cluster that formed an unusual bridge between the two objects.
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A Tour of Bending the Bridge Between Two Galaxy Clusters (05-11-2020)
Several hundred million years ago, two galaxy clusters collided and then passed through each other. This mighty event released a flood of hot gas from each galaxy cluster that formed an unusual bridge between the two objects.
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-- Bending the Bridge Between Two Galaxy Clusters
Several hundred million years ago, two galaxy clusters collided and then passed through each other. This mighty event released a flood of hot gas from each galaxy cluster that formed an unusual bridge between the two objects.
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A Quick Look at the Universe's Expansion May Not Be The Same In All Directions (04-08-2020)
One of the fundamental ideas of cosmology is that everything looks the same in all directions if you look over large enough distances. A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton is challenging that basic notion.
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One of the fundamental ideas of cosmology is that everything looks the same in all directions if you look over large enough distances. A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton is challenging that basic notion.
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