The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.

The event is designated EP240408a, as it was first detected by the Einstein Probe, an X-ray space telescope, on 8 April 2024. At a glance, it appeared to be a run-of-the-mill gamma ray burst, which ...

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The observations made using the European Space Agency's ... estimated that the white dwarf is orbiting the black hole at about 5% the distance that separates Earth from the sun, or a bit under ...

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The black hole in question is 1ES 1927+654, located around 270 million light-years from Earth ... white dwarf, the researchers theorize that it could be detected using ripples in space and ...

creating sources of extreme brightness in the vastness of space. When one of those jets points directly at Earth, scientists call the black hole system a blazar, as per NASA. The jets extending ...

In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth ... a black hole. That's the exciting thing." Sibasish Laha, an assistant research scientist for UMBC with the Center for Space ...

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In 2018, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed that the black hole's corona -- a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma ... as NASA's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).