Like a real lens, this also magnifies the background galaxy ... matter pulled in close to the black hole heats up and releases energy in the form of light, X-rays, and other radiation." ...

Black holes continue to grip our imagination. These cosmic powerhouses twist space and time so intensely that even light cannot escape once it crosses a certain boundary. Their defining edge—the event ...

Typically,stellar-mass black holes are discovered when they interact with nearby stars—pulling in material, emitting X-rays ... of a background star, temporarily magnifying its light and ...

where matter pulled in close to the black hole heats up and releases energy in the form of light, X-rays, and other radiation," Nightingale said. "However, gravitational lensing makes it possible ...

They can be made by the sun, by other stars exploding, and even black holes. They move extremely fast, nearly the speed of light ... of a percentage of the background radiation experienced everywhere ...

This doomed star keeps tripping over the shredded remains of its predecessor, and it’s kicking up flashes of x-rays ... light years away, where something around the supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays ... of the black hole at the heart of SDSS1335+0728, a distant and unremarkable galaxy 300 million light-years away ...

"These observations can shed light on some of the main questions of astrophysics that are still unsolved. What really sets black holes apart ... the origin of cosmic rays (very high-energy ...

Gamma rays are high-energy photons produced by some of the most violent events in the universe. Photons of light are massless ... What is the cosmic microwave background? On Earth, gamma rays ...

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