The Event Horizon Telescope recently released a historic picture of M87’s black hole silhouette, but what else is there to know about the host galaxy?
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Astronomy
Sand and glass originate from enormous exploding stars
Silica, the most common mineral found on Earth, is formed at the end of massive star’s life
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Finding aliens with laser precision
A recent study claims that a power-enough laser aimed into space could be detectable from as far as 20,000 light years away
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Magnetic fields manage a black hole’s feeding time
Magnetic fields have been seen to manipulate the material surrounding a black hole by observing the nearby galaxy Cygnus A
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Celebrating 15 years of the Spitzer Space Telescope
NASA’s iconic infrared telescope has reached a tremendous milestone, revealing many unknown details about our solar system and beyond in the process
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James Webb Space Telescope will hunt down brown dwarfs
Astronomers hope to understand the elusive object that forms a bridge between stars and planets
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Red giant star’s unexpected change in appearance puzzles astronomers
A whole set of carefully constructed models have been abandoned due to the 400 light-year distant CW Leonis’ odd behaviour