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  2. Glossary of astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Examples of MACHOs include black holes or neutron stars as well as brown dwarfs and rogue planets. magnetic switchback A sudden reversals in the magnetic field of the solar wind. magnetosphere A mostly convex region formed when a plasma, such as the solar wind, interacts with the magnetic field of a body, such as a planet or star. magnitude

  3. Stellar collision - Wikipedia

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    Any stars in the universe can collide, whether they are "alive", meaning fusion is still active in the star, or "dead", with fusion no longer taking place. White dwarf stars, neutron stars , black holes , main sequence stars , giant stars , and supergiants are very different in type, mass, temperature, and radius, and accordingly produce ...

  4. List of black holes - Wikipedia

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    OJ 287 core black holes — a BL Lac object with a candidate binary supermassive black hole core system [23] PG 1302-102 – the first binary-cored quasar — a pair of supermassive black holes at the core of this quasar [24] [25] SDSS J120136.02+300305.5 core black holes — a pair of supermassive black holes at the centre of this galaxy [26]

  5. Lists of black holes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of lists of black holes: List of black holes; List of most massive black holes; List of nearest known black holes; List of quasars; See also.

  6. Astronomers theorize what it's like when worlds (and black ...

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    Tight binary solar systems are inhabited in science fiction -- remember the Star Wars world of Tatooine -- but humanity might find such planets inhospitable over the long term, and not just ...

  7. Lists of astronomical objects - Wikipedia

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    List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun; List of Solar System objects by size; Lists of geological features of the Solar System; List of natural satellites (moons) Lists of small Solar System bodies; Lists of comets; List of meteor showers; Minor planets. List of minor planets. List of exceptional asteroids; List of minor planet ...

  8. Humanity gets peek at what happens inside a black hole

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    Scientists have got a peek at what is happening inside of black holes. A new model – built on gravitational waves that were first detected almost 10 years ago – indicates what is going inside ...

  9. Hypernova - Wikipedia

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    The collapsar model describes a type of supernova that produces a gravitationally collapsed object, or black hole. The word "collapsar", short for "collapsed star", was formerly used to refer to the end product of stellar gravitational collapse, a stellar-mass black hole. The word is now sometimes used to refer to a specific model for the ...