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The top 5 astronomy stories for 2019
Phil Plait
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So, about that 'too massive' black hole… yeah, not so much.
Phil Plait
Dec 11, 2019
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Artist’s depiction of a blue star orbiting a black hole… except this depiction for the purported 70 solar mass black hole is incorrect. That gas orbits the whole system. Credit: Jingchuan Yu / Beijing Planetarium (modified by Phil Plait)
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Q: How did this black hole get so big? A: Maybe it's really two black holes.
Phil Plait
Dec 2, 2019
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Artist’s depiction of a blue star orbiting a black hole. Credit: Jingchuan Yu / Beijing Planetarium
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Two gamma-ray bursts emit highest energy photons ever seen from GRBs
Phil Plait
Nov 21, 2019
Artwork depicting a gamma-ray burst with a beam of material racing away. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Kornmesser
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Our local supermassive black hole shot a star right out of the galaxy
Phil Plait
Nov 13, 2019
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Artwork depicting the ejection of one star in a binary system by a supermassive black hole. Credit: James Josephides (Swinburne Astronomy Productions)
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The lowest mass black hole ever (not) seen may have been found
Phil Plait
Nov 4, 2019
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Fanciful artwork depicting a low-mass stellar black hole (lower left) and a red giant star orbiting each other. Credit: Ohio State / Jason Shults
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Black holes might not crush you after all—they could be even weirder than that
Elizabeth Rayne
Oct 12, 2019
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The day our galaxy exploded
Phil Plait
Oct 10, 2019
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Artwork showing the outburst from the center of the Milky Way and the Magellanic Stream of gas coming out of satellite galaxies. Credit: James Josephides/ASTRO 3D
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If you could survive a black hole, where would you end up?
Elizabeth Rayne
Sep 28, 2019
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NASA image of a black hole
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Exoplanet-hunting observatory TESS sees a star torn apart by a black hole
Phil Plait
Sep 27, 2019
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Artwork showing a star (center) getting torn apart by a black hole (upper left). Credit: Robin Dienel, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science
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What does a black hole look like up close?
Phil Plait
Sep 26, 2019
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A simulation of what a black hole with a disk of gas swirling around it would look, given the bizarre effects of its fierce gravity on the light from the disk. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman
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Wrap your mind around this newly-discovered ultramassive black hole
Jeff Spry
Aug 13, 2019
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The supermassive black hole in our galaxy recently erupted… and we don't know why
Phil Plait
Aug 13, 2019
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artwork of a black hole accretion disk
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Measuring a monster: The two *billion* solar mass black hole in NGC 3258
Phil Plait
Aug 8, 2019
Artwork depicting the inner ring of gas and dust around the accretion disk, with the supermassive black hole directly in the center powering everything. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
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Making a supernova the hard way: Tossing a white dwarf into a black hole
Phil Plait
May 30, 2019
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Artist’s impression of a white dwarf having matter siphoned off by a black hole. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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A black hole in a distant galaxy has been eating a star… for more than a *decade*!
Phil Plait
May 15, 2019
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Artwork depicting a black hole eating a star, the ferocious tides tearing the star apart. Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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