Scientists Spy Cosmic Waves Around Black Hole
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Black holes may actually drag the fabric of space and time around them as they spin, creating waves for cosmic material to surf on, astronomers said on Monday.
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An eruption of high-energy radiation recently signaled a tantrum unleashed by a black hole, astronomers announced today.
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Scientists have now officially witnessed the perfect cosmic storm. Thanks to the European Space Agency&#39;s XMM-Newton observatory, they watched a nearby head-on collision between two galaxy clusters.
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X-ray vision has brought astronomers closer than ever to completely characterizing a black hole, a place where strange things happen.
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Black holes are dark secrets, shrouded in churning spacetime and scrunched into points smaller than an atom. In recent years, astronomers have successfully penetrated some of their mysteries, but fundamental questions about what they are and how they work are still unanswered.
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Teams of international scientists have   used observations from NASA's Swift satellite and other   telescopes to witness the evolution of a cosmic blast into a   stellar explosion or supernova.
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UK physicists have completed the first crucial element of an experimental device designed to probe the forces that shape our Universe.
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NASA's new Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, scheduled for completion in May, could help scientists learn more about the mysterious gamma rays generated in "staggeringly distant" galaxies.
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An international team of astronomers have unexpectedly found hundreds of expanding "supermassive" black holes buried deep inside galaxies billions of light years from Earth.
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Scientists have obtained their best measurement yet of the size and contents of a neutron star, an ultra-dense object containing the strangest and rarest matter in the Universe.
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A swirling space observatory has been launched to scan the universe for explosions that some believe are the birth of black holes.
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When scientists are looking into space, the more they can see, the easier it is to piece together the puzzle of the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope's mirror blanks have now been constructed.
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New observations portray black holes as Jekyll and Hyde characters. They can be creators as well as destroyers.
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Fermilab researchers announce observation of "cascade b" baryon. The Higgs boson remains at large.
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A cosmic explosion that seems to have come out of nowhere&#x2014;thousands of light-years from the nearest collection of stars&#x2014;has left astronomers baffled.
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An international team of astronomers has succeeded in solving the 100 year-old mystery about the origin of the cosmic rays by producing the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays.
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It's a tremendous blank area in the universe -- nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness. Astronomers are puzzling over the cosmic hole that has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter.