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Arecibo Observatory data help lead to discovery of cosmic ‘heartbeat’ – Space Daily
Orlando FL (SPX) Aug 18, 2020 –
An international team of researchers using data from Arecibo Observatory and the Fermi Space Telescope have discovered what they call a gamma-ray heartbeat coming from a cosmic gas cloud.
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An international team of researchers using data from Arecibo Observatory and the Fermi Space Telescope have discovered what they call a “gamma-ray heartbeat” coming from a cosmic gas cloud.
The cloud is in the constellation Aquilla and “beats” in rhythm with a black hole 100 light years away in a microquasar system known as SS 433. The results were published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
“This result challenges obvious interpretations and is unexpected from previously published theoretical …
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