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Rare Type of Black Hole Snacks on Star
Rare Type of Black Hole Snacks on Star NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have identified a new possible example of an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) called NGC 6099 HLX-1. The IMBH, which weighs between 100-100,000 times the mass of our Sun, is thought to reside in a compact star cluster within a […]
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Hubble Provides New View of Galactic Favorite
Hubble Provides New View of Galactic Favorite The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a new image series of the Sombrero Galaxy, also known as Messier 104, as part of Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations. The new image reveals finer detail in the galaxy’s disk and more background stars and galaxies than previous images, showcasing its […]
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Hubble Captures a Star’s Swan Song
Hubble Captures a Star’s Swan Song Hubble has captured an image of Kohoutek 4-55, a planetary nebula located 4,600 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, showcasing the star’s final display before it exhausts its fuel. The image features swirling clouds of ionized atoms thrown into space by a dying star, with different colors indicating the […]
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