Radio waves from black hole detected
July 11th, 2012 - 4:26 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, July 11 (IANS) Surprisingly, scientists have for the first time ever detected the radio waves emanating from a mid-sized black hole, called the HLX-1, around 300 million light years ... Read more...
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Hubble asteroid collision pictures emerge
May 2nd, 2011 - 9:48 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, May 2 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Scientists have captured on picture the collision of asteroids. This is the first time that the event has been caught on tape. Scientists say the incident ... Read more...
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NASA’s Swift satellite, Hubble Telescope probe asteroid collision debris
April 29th, 2011 - 6:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 29 (ANI): NASA's Swift satellite and Hubble Space Telescope are probing asteroid collision debris.Late last year, NASA's astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was ... Read more...
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Supercomputer solves gamma-ray burst mystery
April 8th, 2011 - 12:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 8 (ANI): A German supercomputer simulation has shown that colliding two neutron stars can naturally produce magnetic structures thought to power the high-speed particle jets associated with short gamma-ray bursts ... Read more...
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NASA’s Swift satellite finds unseen black-hole-powered galaxies
January 21st, 2011 - 4:24 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 21 (ANI): NASA's Swift satellite has found a largely unseen population of black-hole-powered galaxies, according to an international team of scientists."These heavily shrouded black holes are all around us. But ... Read more...
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NASA finds 30-yr-old ‘youngest’ nearby black hole
November 16th, 2010 - 12:04 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 16 (ANI): NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered evidence of the youngest black hole known to exist in our cosmic neighbourhood.The 30-year-old black hole could help scientists better understand how ... Read more...
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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory finds youngest nearby black hole
November 16th, 2010 - 12:51 am ICT by BNO News
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence of the youngest black hole known to exist in our cosmic neighborhood, the space agency announced on Monday. ... Read more...
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Gamma-ray bursts powered by strongest magnetic fields in universe
November 4th, 2010 - 6:37 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): Astronomers in the UK have seen the signature of a magnetar in 11 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by the Swift satellite.The team, led by University of Leicester ... Read more...
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Dazzling star explosion blinds satellite
July 16th, 2010 - 9:12 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, July 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) On Wednesday, astronomers experienced the brightest star explosion ever seen till now. The explosion was so bright, that it temporary blinded the satellite that was recording ... Read more...
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Space observatory briefly blinded by record-breaking x-ray blast
July 15th, 2010 - 5:22 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 15 (ANI): A blast of the brightest X-rays ever detected from beyond our Milky Way galaxy's neighbourhood temporarily blinded the X-ray eye on NASA's Swift space observatory earlier this summer, ... Read more...
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‘Smoking gun’ of black hole activation found
May 27th, 2010 - 12:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 27 (ANI): NASA's Swift satellite has provided astronomers the answer to the long standing puzzle about why a small percentage of black holes emit vast amounts of energy.The findings suggest ... Read more...
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Magnetic power revealed in Gamma-Ray Burst Jet
December 10th, 2009 - 5:51 pm ICT by ANI
Maryland (US), Dec.10 (ANI): A specialized camera on a telescope operated by U.K. astronomers from Liverpool has made the first measurement of magnetic fields in the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB). ... Read more...
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Invading black holes cause ‘cosmic flashes’
September 19th, 2009 - 2:09 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 19 (ANI): Mathematicians at the University of Leeds, UK, have determined that cosmic flashes, known as gamma ray bursts, are produced by jets of plasma that originate from invading black ... Read more...
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NASA’s Swift satellite makes best-ever ultraviolet portrait of Andromeda galaxy
September 17th, 2009 - 1:36 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 17 (ANI): NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of a neighboring spiral galaxy ever attained in the ultraviolet.The galaxy, known as M31 in the constellation Andromeda, is ... Read more...
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Enormous eruption reveals dead star in deep space
June 17th, 2009 - 12:21 pm ICT by ANI
Paris, June 17 (ANI): Astronomers, using ESA's (European Space Agency's) XMM-Newton and Integral space observatories, have observed an enormous eruption, which after careful analysis, has revealed a dead star belonging to a ... Read more...
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New York teen discovers weakest supernova ever seen
June 11th, 2009 - 2:35 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 11 (ANI: Observations have determined that a peculiar, junior-sized supernova discovered by a New York teenager in 2008, might be the weakest supernova ever seen.The supernova, called SN 2008ha, was ... Read more...
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Astronomers discover most dark gamma-ray bursts occur in normal galaxies
June 9th, 2009 - 4:39 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 9 (ANI): An international team of astronomers has found most dark gamma-ray bursts occur in normal galaxies detectable by large, ground-based optical telescopes.Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's biggest explosions, capable ... Read more...
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Astronomers spot most distant object in the Universe
April 28th, 2009 - 1:34 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 28 (ANI): Astronomers have spotted the most distant object yet confirmed in the universe, which is a self-destructing star that exploded 13.1 billion light years from Earth.According to a report ... Read more...
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NASA satellite records early stage of gamma-ray burst
March 3rd, 2009 - 1:44 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 3 (ANI): A team of astronomers, using a telescope aboard the NASA Swift satellite, have captured information from the early stages of a gamma-ray burst, the most violent and ... Read more...
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‘Green Comet’ to streak past Earth Tuesday
February 21st, 2009 - 6:03 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 21 (IANS) Space scientists are keeping a close vigil on Comet Lulin, also known as the 'Green Comet', which will streak past the Earth Tuesday.
Comet Lulin will pass within 38 ... Read more...
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Treat your eyes to a green comet on February 24!
February 21st, 2009 - 12:57 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 21 (ANI): Avid skygazers are all set to get a cosmic treat in the form of a green comet, which is fast approaching Earth, and would be visible to ... Read more...
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NASA’’s satellites probe fireworks from a flaring gamma-ray star
February 11th, 2009 - 4:48 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 11 (ANI): Astronomers are using NASA''s Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to probe frequent blasts from a flaring gamma-ray star 30,000 light-years away.
The high-energy fireworks arise from ... Read more...
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NASA’’s Swift satellite finds most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected
September 20th, 2008 - 12:08 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 20 (ANI): NASA''s Swift satellite has found the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected, designated GRB 080913, which arose from an exploding star 12.8 billion light-years away.
"This is ... Read more...
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“Naked-eye” gamma ray burst was aimed squarely at Earth
September 11th, 2008 - 1:42 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 11 (ANI): Data from satellites and observatories around the globe have shown that a jet from a powerful stellar explosion, which was witnessed on March 19 this year, was ... Read more...
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Stellar blast gamma ray was aimed at earth: NASA
September 11th, 2008 - 12:58 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 11 (Xinhua) Data from satellites and observatories around the globe show a jet from a powerful stellar explosion witnessed March 19 was aimed almost directly at the Earth, the US ... Read more...
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Green mystery blob may reveal quasars dying days
August 6th, 2008 - 3:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 6 (ANI): An astronomer has discovered a strange green blob in the nearby universe that may be a light echo from a long-dead quasar an extremely bright object powered ... Read more...
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Small star unleashes an extremely bright flare
May 20th, 2008 - 12:59 pm ICT by admin
Washington, May 20 (ANI): NASAs Swift satellite has detected an extremely bright flare coming from a considerably small star a red dwarf.The flare, which is the brightest ever seen from a ... Read more...
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Light from stellar explosion older than both Earth and Sun detected
April 3rd, 2008 - 11:53 am ICT by admin
Washington, April 3 (ANI): Light from a stellar explosion older than both the Sun and Earth and more than half way across the universe, has been detected by an amateur internet ... Read more...
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Luminous stellar explosion is most distant object visible to the naked eye (Re-Issue)
March 23rd, 2008 - 2:59 pm ICT by admin
Washington, March 23 (ANI): NASA's Swift satellite has detected a powerful stellar explosion, which has shattered the record for the most distant object visible to the naked eye and also ranks ... Read more...
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Stellar explosion is most distant and brightest object visible to the naked eye
March 21st, 2008 - 3:44 pm ICT by admin
Washington, March 21 (ANI): NASA's Swift satellite has detected a powerful stellar explosion, which has shattered the record for the most distant object visible to the naked eye and also ranks ... Read more...
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Imaging a galaxy ablaze with star birth
February 27th, 2008 - 11:26 am ICT by admin
Washington, Feb 27 (IANS) NASA astronomers have created a striking and detailed ultraviolet image of an entire galaxy "ablaze with star birth" by combining 39 individual frames, taken over 11 hours of ... Read more...
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Inter-galatic shot in the dark shocks astronomers
December 18th, 2007 - 7:23 pm ICT by admin
Greenbelt (Maryland, USA), Dec.18 (ANI): A team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic explosion that seems to have come from the middle of nowhere thousands of light-years from the nearest galaxy-sized collection ... Read more...
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