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How massive stars steal planets – new research
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How massive stars steal planets – new research

[ad_1] Our Sun has a rather lonely existence in the Milky Way galaxy. It sits on its own, four light years away from the nearest star, with only its planetary system for company. But it wasn’t always like this. Our Sun has a rather lonely existence in the Milky Way galaxy. It sits on its own, four light years away from the nearest star, with only its planetary system for company. But it wasn't always like this. We almost exclusively observe young stars in groups, so-called stellar nurseries, where they brush shoulders with stellar siblings.These stellar nurseries are densely populated places, where hundreds of thousands of stars often reside in the same volume of space that the Sun inhabits on its own. Violent interactions, i...
A Black Hole 4.5 billion times BIGGER than our Sun? This is what NASA Hubble Space Telescope just found
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A Black Hole 4.5 billion times BIGGER than our Sun? This is what NASA Hubble Space Telescope just found

[ad_1] A galaxy called M60 has a huge black hole at its center and that's about 4.5 billion times as massive as our Sun. Know what NASA says. Scientists and researchers have been trying to find more information regarding the terrifying black holes that seem to be all around in space destroying planets and stars at will. It can be known that a black hole is an astronomical object with a gravitational pull so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape it. It is a place of eternal pitch black darkness. So, what if we tell you that there is a galaxy which has a black hole that is so much bigger than our Sun? NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image showing the galaxy called M60. The galaxy has a diameter of 1,20,000...