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For the first time, an elusive ghost particle blasted from deep space is seen on Earth

sudshr47 July 12, 2018

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Billions of years ago, a supermassive black hole feeding on gas and dust in the center of a galaxy spit out a subatomic ghost.

That ghost particle — known as a neutrino — has quietly made its journey through the cosmos, across billions of light-years and arrived on Earth, where a large group of neutrino-hunting scientists were waiting to see it.

A giant detector located in Antarctica caught sight of the neutrino sent into space by that feeding black hole, known as a blazar, marking the first detection of its kind in history. The groundbreaking new finding is detailed in two papers published in the journal Science Thursday. Read more…

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s launch is delayed again, because of course it is

sudshr47 June 27, 2018

Another day, another delay for one of the most complicated space telescope projects ever undertaken. 
NASA announced on Wednesday that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a complicated mission designed to transform American astrophysics and a…

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Hungry, hungry black hole would take only two days to eat the mass of our sun

sudshr47 May 15, 2018

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Even black holes get hungry.

Astronomers have just discovered a black hole that’s growing faster than any other black hole yet found in the universe. 

If the sun were to fall into this incredibly dense cosmic object, it would only take two days for the black hole to devour it, the scientists behind the new discovery have said.

The supermassive black hole — which is located billions of light-years away — is thought to be the mass of 20 billion suns and grows by about 1 percent every 1 million years, according to the new study detailing the discovery of the black hole.  Read more…

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