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This Black queer physicist is shining a light on dark matter
But Prescod-Weinstein — who is a Black, queer, agender woman and uses she/they pronouns — entered the field “with a little-kid mindset of, ‘I just want to be a theoretical physicist.’” ...
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NASA simulation shows what it's like to fly into black hole's "point of no return"
360 Video: NASA Simulation Shows a Flight Around a Black Hole by NASA Goddard on YouTube. The black hole used in the visualizations is 4.3 million times the mass of the solar system's sun.
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Physics Grad Student Named One of NASA’s FINESST
08/04/2023 By Brooke Coupal. Nicholas Sorabella ’21 is helping others unlock the mysteries of the universe. The physics Ph.D. student is developing an easily accessible tool that could lead to ...
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Hubble Captures Monster Black Hole That May Be Gobbling Galaxies
More NASA, ESA, Bin Ren Université Côte d’Azur/CNRS), ... 3C 273 continues to serve as a cosmic laboratory for unraveling the mysteries of galactic interactions and black hole physics.
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A NASA telescope reveals a giant black hole jet like never before
NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope peers at a jet blasting forth from the central supermassive black hole of Centaurus A, a galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth. Credit: D. Bogensberger et al.