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Black holes up close | Nature
Schwarzschild, K. On the gravitational field of a mass point according to Einstein’s theory. Abh. Konigl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin…
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A helium-burning white dwarf binary as a supersoft X-ray source
Optical photometry SkyMapper. The optical brightness, measured by SkyMapper36 (not simultaneously) is g′ = 15.82 ± 0.02 mag, r′ = 16.04 ± 0.02 mag, i′ = 16.41 ± 0.01 mag, z′ = 16.59 ± 0.04 mag and, after correcting for…
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Can Cosmic Collisions Be Predicted Before They Happen?
On August 17, 2017, around 70 telescopes collectively turned their gaze to a fiery collision between two dead stars that…
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Japan’s rising research stars: Mariko Kimura
Mariko Kimura plans to shift her focus to γ-ray bursts, and hopes her work will inspire other women in astronomy.Credit:…
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A shared accretion instability for black holes and neutron stars
Lightman, A. P. & Eardley, D. M. Black holes in binary systems: instability of disk accretion. Astrophys. J. 187, L1…
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Physicists Create New Model of Ringing Black Holes
The research, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, come from a team of researchers at Caltech, Columbia University, University…
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A high-mass X-ray binary descended from an ultra-stripped supernova
De, K. et al. A hot and fast ultra-stripped supernova that likely formed a compact neutron star binary. Science 362,…
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Weird supernova remnant blows scientists’ minds
When dying stars explode as supernovae, they usually eject a chaotic web of dust and gas. But a new image…
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black hole consumes a star bit by bit
<![CDATA[]]> Observations of a supermassive black hole that regularly snacks on the same star could help scientists to better understand…
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Stellar initial mass function varies with metallicity and time
Kroupa, P. On the variation of the initial mass function. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 322, 231–246 (2001). Article ADS …
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