Holes In The Sun

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  Solar 'Battle Zone' Could be Even Worse Than Solar Maximum, Experts Warn

  Experts warn that the sun's next phase, the "battle zone," could result in increased geomagnetic activity, lasting until 2028. This period could bring heightened solar flares and coronal holes, which may cause disruptions to satellites in low-Earth orbit. Space weather experts, including Scott McIntosh from Lynker Space, have noted that this phase ...

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  Antarctic Wildlife Is Being Sunburnt. Scientists Say It's A "Wake-Up Call"

  The ultraviolet radiation from the Sun increase the risk of skin cancer and cataracts in humans, but researchers do not yet know if the same is true for Antarctic mammals and birds.

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  Scientists Discover Oldest Black Hole Ever That's 'Eating' Its Host Galaxy

  Scientists said it is surprising to know that such supermassive black hole, which is a few million times the mass of our Sun, existed in the early universe.

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  Supermassive Black Hole Spotted Eating Sun-Like Star in Nearby Galaxy

  Black holes, celestial objects known for their gluttony, usually eat stars unlucky enough to stray too close to them in one big gulp, annihilating them with their enormous gravitational pull. But some, it turns out, tend to snack rather than gorge. Researchers said they have observed a supermassive black hole at the center of a relatively nearby ga...

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  NASA's Hubble Telescope Spots Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Leaving Behind Trail of Newborn Stars

  A supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a 2,00,000-light-year-long condensed trail of newborn stars, twice the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy, in its wake, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), US. Captured accidentally by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the black hole was se...

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  "Monster On The Loose": NASA's Hubble Spots Black Hole Weighing As Much As 20 Million Suns

  American space agency NASA has warned that there is an "invisible monster on the loose", in the form of a "runaway" black hole.

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  Massive 'Hole' Spotted on Sun's Surface. Know What It Means For Earth

  According to NASA, coronal holes appear as dark areas in the solar corona because they are cooler, less dense regions than the surrounding plasma.

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  Watch: NASA Turns "Light Echoes" From A Black Hole Into Sound

  According to NASA, the black hole in the video is about 7,800 light years away from Earth and has a mass between five and ten times that of the Sun.

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  Astronomers Spot Hot Gas Bubble Spinning Clockwise Around Milky Way Black Hole

  Astronomers said Thursday they have spotted a hot bubble of gas spinning clockwise around the black hole at the centre of our galaxy at "mind blowing" speeds. The detection of the bubble, which only survived for a few hours, is hoped to provide insight into how these invisible, insatiable, galactic monsters work.

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  Neutron Star Becomes Heaviest Celestial Object With 2.35 Times Mass of Sun

  Researchers have recently observed a collapsed dense neutron star shredding and devouring its stellar companion to become one of the heaviest neutron stars ever spotted. The star has a mass 2.35 times that of the Sun and spins at a speed of 707 rounds per second. The finding may now give astronomers an insight into the weird quantum state of matter...

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  Dormant Black Hole Deemed ‘Needle in a Haystack’ Identified Outside the Milky Way

  Astronomers have identified a black hole that not only is classified as dormant but appears to have been born without the explosion of a dying star, in a galaxy adjacent to the Milky Way. Black holes are extraordinarily dense objects with gravity so intense not even light can escape. Deemed a cosmic "needle in a haystack", the newly discovered ‘d...

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  Supermassive Black Holes Formed in Rare Regions of Gas Behind the Earliest Quasars: Study

  Scientists have determined one of the biggest mysteries in recent astrophysics – the formation of quasars in the early universe. These cosmic entities were first spotted in 2003. A team of researchers has found out that these primordial quasars naturally formed in chaotic conditions of rare gas reservoirs of the early universe.

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  NASA's Hubble Captures Malnourished Black Hole at Core of Spiral Galaxy NGC 3147 in Draco Constellation

  NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recently shared images of a spiral galaxy named NGC 3147. This majestic galaxy is located about 130 million light-years away in the constellation Draco, also called the "dragon". The image shows the galaxy's graceful, winding arms appear like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space. In reality, these spiral...

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  Astronomers Detect Mini-Supermassive Black Hole That May Shed Light on How They Grow

  Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers have identified a black hole having 200,000 times the mass of the Sun in Mrk 462, a dwarf galaxy with only several hundred million stars. In comparison, our Milky Way has a few hundred billion stars.

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  Massive Black Hole That 'Shouldn't Even Exist' Spotted in the Milky Way

  Astronomers have discovered a black hole in the Milky Way so huge that it challenges existing models of how stars evolve, researchers said Thursday.