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Chandra Detects Mini-Supermassive Black Hole in Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxy Black Hole

Chandra Detects Mini-Supermassive Black Hole in Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxy

A supermassive black hole with 200,000 solar masses is located in the middle of the dwarf galaxy Markarian 462 (Mrk 462), according to new research led by Dartmouth College astrophysicists. This graphic shows X-rays that NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory detected from the dwarf galaxy Mrk 462. This X-ray emission (inset)…
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January 11, 2022
NASA’s newly launched X-ray space telescope is ready to start observing the cosmos Black Hole

NASA’s newly launched X-ray space telescope is ready to start observing the cosmos

Home News Science & Astronomy An artist's depiction of the IXPE observatory in space. (Image credit: NASA) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's newest space observatory, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), is set to begin spying on some of the universe's most dramatic objects — black holes and neutron stars…
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January 11, 2022
Supermassive black hole gobbled up a star in the 1980s, and high schoolers helped discover it Black Hole

Supermassive black hole gobbled up a star in the 1980s, and high schoolers helped discover it

Home News Science & Astronomy An artist's depiction of a black hole eating a star, also known as a tidal disruption event, and producing a superfast jet. (Image credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF/NASA) Astronomers have found evidence of a black hole snacking on a star in data gathered back in the 1980s, according…
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January 11, 2022
Dwarf galaxy Mrk 462: ‘Mini’ monster black hole could hold clues to giant’s growth Black Hole

Dwarf galaxy Mrk 462: ‘Mini’ monster black hole could hold clues to giant’s growth

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Dartmouth Coll./J. Parker & R. Hickox; Optical/IR: Pan-STARRS The discovery of a supermassive black hole in a relatively small galaxy could help astronomers unravel the mystery surrounding how the very biggest black holes grow. Researchers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to identify a black hole containing about 200,000…
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January 10, 2022