Astronomers discovered eight new ‘echoing’ black holes in the milky way

Astronomers discovered eight new ‘echoing’ black holes in the milky way

Astronomers have discovered eight new “echoing black hole binaries” in our galaxy with a new automated search tool that they call “Reverberation Machine.” These are systems with a star orbiting, and sometimes being eaten away by a black hole. Previously, only two such systems in the Milky Way were known to emit “X-ray echoes” that […]

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