Why starlight turns red escaping from black hole at heart of Milky Way eso a CROP. Indranil Banik, University of St Andrews For the past 30 years, scientists at the European Southern Observatory have been investigating the motion of stars near the massive black hole at the centre of our…
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Observing the universe with a camera traveling near the speed of light
Observing the universe with a camera traveling near the speed of light What could a ‘relativistic camera’ capture on the way to Alpha Centauri? ESA/NASA, CC BY Bing Zhang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Astronomers strive to observe the universe via ever more advanced techniques. Whenever researchers invent a new…
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