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What Would Happen if SgrA* Became Active?

When a black hole becomes more active it behaves much like “active galactic nuclei”, or AGN, found quite frequently…

Most theorists believe that a neutron star that surpasses the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) mass limit will collapse directly into a…

By combining the signals from multiple telescopes radio astronomers are able to produce images or “pictures”, such as the…

Yes. Light is redshifted to longer wavelengths when it interacts with a black hole. This redshifted light, though, travels…

I don’t believe that radio astronomical measurements can distinguish between neutron star and black hole tidal disruption events. I…

The amount of mass that a typical black hole consumes over time is much smaller than its total mass,…

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