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A Supermassive Black Hole At The Center Of The Milky Way Was Born From A Cataclysmic Merger With Another Giant Black Hole Billions Of Years Ago
It was born from the collapse of a giant star or gas cloud and consumed anything that got too close to it. After expanding to a gargantuan size, it fed on other supermassive black holes.
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Black Holes Consume a Gas Cloud in a Spectacular Event
It is a very weird event, called AT 2021hdr, that keeps recurring every few months. We think that a gas cloud engulfed the black holes. As they orbit each other, the black holes interact with the ...
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How our solar system was born
Discover how a giant interstellar cloud known as the solar nebula gave birth to our solar system and everything in it. The solar system as we know it began life as a vast, swirling cloud of gas and ...
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Why Extrasolar Gas Giant Planets Are Crucial To The Hunt For Life
Similar gas giant planets can have vastly different atmospheric compositions with disparate cloud or haze properties. Located some 869 light years away, WASP-19b is one of the most extreme ...
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What is the solar system?
Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was formed by the collapse of a giant cloud of gas and rock and is held together by the gravitational pull of the Sun.