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Royal Astronomical Society Press Notice
BLACK HOLE BLOWS BUBBLE BETWEEN THE STARS
A team of astronomers from The Netherlands and the UK has discovered a vast 'jet-powered bubble' formed in the gas around a black hole in the Milky Way.
The discovery means that for decades scienti...
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Title: The Mass of the Black Hole in Cygnus X-1 Authors: Jerome A. Orosz, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Jason P. Aufdenberg, Ronald A. Remillard, Mark J. Reid, Ramesh Narayan, Lijun Gou Cygnus X-1 is a binary star system that is comprised of a black hole and a massive giant companion star in a tight orbit. Bui...
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Just to the north of Deneb, halfway between Deneb and Herschel's Garnet Star, is the dark nebula Le Gentil 3, or Globular Filament 7 (GF 7, catalogued by Schneider & Elmegreen in 1979). Le Gentil 3 was discovered and catalogued by the French astronomer Guillaume-Joseph-Hyacinthe-Jean-Bapt...
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Before They Were Stars: New Image Shows Space Nursery The stars we see today weren't always as serene as they appear, floating alone in the dark of night. Most stars, likely including our own sun, grew up in cosmic turmoil, as illustrated in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The imag...
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