[ad_1] In 1930, a young Indian physicist named Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar boarded a ship from India to England. Just 19 years old, he spent much of the long voyage working out the mathematics of what happens when a star collapses under its own gravity. What he found was shocking: stars above a certain mass couldn’t stop […]
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[ad_1] Researchers have discovered the fastest known star, which travels around a black hole and reaches speeds of around 8,000 kilometres per second. The star, named S4716, orbits Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy. It comes as close to 100 astronomical units (AU) to the black hole. […]
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[ad_1] Astronomers have discovered what appears to be the fastest-growing black hole ever spotted in space. The new black hole is reportedly growing so fast that it consumes the equivalent of one Earth each second. The discovery was made by Astronomers from the Australian National University (ANU), who describe it as a “very large, unexpected […]
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