Spinning Black Hole Swallowing Star Explains Superluminous Event

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Spinning Black Hole Swallowing Star Explains Superluminous Event

In 2015, the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) detected an event, named ASASSN-15lh, that was recorded as the brightest supernova ever — and categorised as a superluminous supernova, the explosion of an extremely massive star at the end of its life. It was twice as bright as the previous record holder, and at […]

ALMA Reveals Intense Magnetic Field Close to Supermassive Black Hole

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ALMA Reveals Intense Magnetic Field Close to Supermassive Black Hole

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has revealed an extremely powerful magnetic field, beyond anything previously detected in the core of a galaxy, very close to the event horizon of a supermassive black hole. This new observation helps astronomers to understand the structure and formation of these massive inhabitants of the centers of galaxies, and […]

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