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Latest News About Black Holes
A black hole is a location in space that possesses so much gravity, nothing can escape its pull, even light. Learn more about what black holes are and the latest news.
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Our home in space is a vast galaxy containing 400 billion suns, at least that many planets, and a 4-billion-solar-mass black hole at the center.
The NuSTAR mission will search the skies with X-ray eyes.
NASA's NuSTAR space telescope will lift off Wednesday from an airplane-born rocket.
The air-launched Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, NuSTAR, will launch on a Pegasus rocket into Earth orbit where it will detect high-energy X-rays to uncover hidden black holes, exploded stars and other features of the universe.
The NuSTAR telescope will try to shed some light on the dark parts of the universe.
A black hole-hunting telescope called NuSTAR is next on the launch docket.
From complete coverage of Venus crossing the sun to a New York space shuttle, it's been an unforgettable week in space.
The NuSTAR telescope will search for black holes after it launches next week.
By focusing X-rays, the NuSTAR space telescope will study black holes and other exotic objects.
A black-hole hunting spacecraft called GEMS will not be built, NASA says.
Many black holes may roam freely through intergalactic space.
From complete coverage of SpaceX splashing down in the Pacific to John Glenn awarded the Medal of Freedom, it's been a thrilling week in space.
Dust and gas surrounding the supermassive black hole accretion disk in galaxy NGC 4151 is reflecting an echo from an x-ray emitting source high above the disk. This helps scientists map the environment around (and created by) the black hole.
The NuSTAR mission will study how black holes form and grow.
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NASA is preparing to launch a new X-ray observatory called NuSTAR to study black holes.
From the bright supermoon to earth-like alien planets munching on stars, it's been a busy week in space.
Astronomers have seen evidence that a supermassive black hole 2.7 billion light years away has shredded a star. In this visualization, some of the murdered star's debris falls into the void, but some is spun up and shot out at high velocities.
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