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Cosmic heartbeat discovered in gas cloud synced with a black hole by Arecibo, Fermi telescopes – Firstpost
This gas cloud in the constellation Aquilla ‘beats’ in rhythm with a black hole 100 light-years away.
Asian News InternationalAug 18, 2020 09:55:59 IST
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 today in the journal Nature Astronomy.
“This result challenges obvious interpretations…
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