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X-ray “heartbeats” of two different black holes that ingest gas from their companion stars. GRS 1915 has nearly five times the mass of IGR J17091, which at three solar masses may be the smallest black hole known. Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Leaves Scientific ‘Treasure Trove’

SpaceEdge May 4, 2018

NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Leaves Scientific ‘Treasure Trove’ NASA’s decommissioned Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on April 30. Orbiting for…

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​image credit: NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, illustrated here, will fly in the mid-2020s and provide astronomers with the most complete view of the cosmos to date. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab
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NASA’s Next Major Telescope to See the Big Picture of the Universe

SpaceEdge Dec 29, 2017 No Comments

NASA’s Next Major Telescope to See the Big Picture of the Universe NASA is beginning to design its next big astrophysics mission, a space telescope…

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Merging black holes generate gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time might be used to unveil hidden dimensions. © Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS)
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Hints of extra dimensions in gravitational waves?

SpaceEdge Jun 28, 2017 No Comments

Hints of extra dimensions in gravitational waves? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI) in Potsdam found that hidden dimensions…

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