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A supernova from a merger with a black hole or neutron star

From EurekAlert: Astronomers have found dramatic evidence that a black hole or neutron star spiraled its way into the core … More

black holes, compact objects, neutron stars, Radio Astronomy, supernova, Transients

A Black Hole Feeding on an Ageing Star Powers a Mysterious Microquasar

A new paper by Qin Han and Xiang-Dong Li of Nanjing University, due to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, … More

black holes, Microquasars, SS433, W50

ESO Sees a Star’s Orbit Precess Around a Supermassive Black Hole

The European Southern Observatory has observed the way a star’s orbit changes as it circles the supermassive black hole at … More

black holes, Relativity, S2

Not all gravitational waves start with a bang

You’ve probably heard of gravitational waves. They’ve been in the news a lot recently because of two experiments called LIGO … More

black holes, compact objects, gravitational waves, kilonova, ligo, neutron stars, virgo

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