Friday, April 22, 2022

Astronomers Detect First Potential ‘Rogue’ Black Hole

04/22/22

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Astronomers detect first potential 'rogue' black hole
Ute Kraus (background Milky Way panorama: Axel Mellinger), Institute of Physics, Universität Hildesheim

We've seen plenty of black holes tearing material off a companion, but not sitting alone in space. Now, we might have spotted one.

6" Saturn Globe 
NASA is ready to start building its next cosmic mapmaker
NASA/JPL-Caltech

SPHEREx is scheduled to map millions of galaxies starting as soon as 2024.

Efforts to colonize Mars could have a negative impact on global health
Evgeniyqw/Shutterstock

The carbon impacts from increased space launches could threaten the ozone layer once again.

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Astronomers find 'missing link' black hole in the early universe
NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz; Yale University), R. Bouwens and I. Labbé (Leiden University), and the Science Team, S. Fujimoto et al. (Cosmic Dawn Center [DAWN] and University of Copenhagen)

The precursor to a brightly shining supermassive black hole was spotted hiding in old Hubble data.

Ask Astro: How is Earth the only known planet with active plate tectonics?
Astronomy: Roen Kelly, after NASA/Noah Kroese, I.NK

Plate tectonics play an immense role in our environment here on Earth. Why is this the only planet where we see this process at work?

The sky this week
Brera Observatory, Milan; John Boudreau

Your daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you. Updated Friday morning at 9 A.M. Central.

In the jungle
Shawn Nielsen from Ontario, Canada

The Lion Nebula (Sh 2–132) is a rich emission nebula roughly 11,000 light-years away in Cepheus. Many of its features — like the curving “tail” — are the result of bubbles being blown out by expanding stars. The image was taken over 11 hours with a 4-inch scope and SHO filters.

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