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NSF Telescopes Image M87’s Supermassive Black Hole and Massive Jet Together for the First Time
Observations also revealed that the supermassive black hole’s ring is bigger than imagined Scientists studying the supermassive black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy have revealed the origins of the monster’s powerful jet and imaged the jet and its source together for the first time. What’s more, the observations have revealed that the…
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Green Bank Telescope Data a part of Breakthrough Listen’s Most Comprehensive Search to Date
Reanalysis of Breakthrough Listen Data to Include Other Stellar Objects in the Field Yields Most Comprehensive SETI Search to Date Independent team combines existing radio telescope data with new catalogs to search over 200 times more stars than before
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Blowing in the wind: fast molecular clouds discovered streaming out from the Galactic Center
Interesting things are happening in the center of the Milky Way, and scientists using radio telescopes on three continents have been making discoveries about a high energy wind that is blasting out of our galaxy.
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To find giant black holes, start with Jupiter
A North-American team of astronomers is collecting data from neutron stars across the Milky Way, weaving a galactic-sized web that will tingle when traversed by gravitational waves from the largest black holes in nature. Surprisingly, the success of this effort hinges on the robotic exploration of our own solar system. This team of astronomers is…
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The GBT: A Powerful Tool for Discovering Fast Radio Bursts
Photo courtesy Jesse Thornton.