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Cracking! Some binary black holes may roll around each other in egg-shaped orbits
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Black hole week reaches its conclusion today (May 10), and there’s no better way to mark the occasion than with some “eggs-traordinary” ...
Astronomers Detect Unusual Radio Signals From Nearby Magnetar That Are ‘Behaving in Complex Ways’
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Astronomers operating the CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope in Australia say they have detected unusual radio signals from Earth’s closest magnetar that are ...
Exploding stars are rare but emit torrents of radiation − if one happened close enough to Earth, it could threaten life on the planet
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Johannes Kepler observed the last supernova in the Milky Way in 1604, so in a statistical sense, the next one is overdue. ...
Colliding neutron stars hint at new physics that could explain dark matter
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The collision of two neutron stars around 130 million light-years from Earth, and the unique physics this merger created, may have shed ...
A bizarre speed-demon star has winds powering a cloud of gas called ‘Potaroo’
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Astronomers have discovered a new rapidly spinning star that races through the universe at millions of miles per hour and spins 14 ...
Gold mine of kilonova explosions forged by neutron stars crashing together
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The gold that comprises the ring on your ring, the jewelry, and the uranium used as fuel in nuclear power plants is ...
Upcoming Einstein Probe will use its ‘lobster eye’ to hunt for extreme black holes and star explosions
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A new space telescope set to launch in Jan. 2024 will look at the cosmos with a revolutionary “lobster eye,” hunting for ...
Strange ‘slide whistle’ fast radio burst picked up by alien-hunting telescope defies explanation
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Astronomers watched 35 explosive outbursts from a rare repeating “fast radio burst” (FRB) as it shifted in frequency like a “cosmic slide ...
Mysterious blasts of radiation might stem from our universe’s most extreme stars
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An illuminated sphere flies through black space, with wide rings jetting up and down from its surface. it’s tailed by a smooth ...
James Webb Space Telescope finds rare heavy chemical element from ‘kilonova’ explosion
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Astronomers using NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just spotted tellurium, an element rarer than platinum is on Earth, in the ...
