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Thursday, June 23, 2016

Somewhere in the COSMOS -- monster black hole that shredded a star that passed too close


X-ray echoes from a galaxy 3.8 billion light-years away reveal a tidal event of a monster black hole that shredded a star that passed too close. These events help astronomers probe the population of supermassive black holes. Details:http://go.nasa.gov/28NyfD2


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Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, astronomer with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center provides us with a journey through the cosmos



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  1. Anonymous8:00 AM

    3.8 billion light-years away!
    It means the picture that we see now happened 3.8 billion years ago, and the earth is only 4.543 billion years old.

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