New Black Hole Discovered

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Posted October 8, 2012 by Johnny2x in Science

New Black Hole NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

It’s coming right for us!!!! Not really, if anything we would be heading towards it anyway.

There was a new one discovered. It’s only 20,000 light years away. It would take a pretty long time to get there. Maybe even a week walking time….perhaps more than that.

full story at popsci.com

A rare X-ray nova–a release of X-ray energy–was first caught by NASA’s Swift telescope in September. Scientists focused in on it and unraveled a story: the black hole formed a binary system with a nearby star, sucking in gas, then eventually releasing it. It’s a rare event–the first one the Swift satellite has ever seen. – read more


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