Youngest black hole ever observed
NOV 16, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024831
Space.com : A cosmic explosion in 1979, observed by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, may have been the beginning of the youngest black hole ever observed. Studying a baby black hole could help astronomers understand how black holes are born and evolve, what determines the fate of stars, and how common black holes are in our galaxy and throughout the universe, researchers said. What makes this baby black hole different is it is much closer than any other observed so far. It doesn’t seem to have an associated gamma-ray burst, which theorists believe is typical of black holes. The researchers will report their results in an upcoming issue of the journal New Astronomy.
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