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  2. Black hole - Wikipedia

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    A black hole with the mass of a car would have a diameter of about 10 −24 m and take a nanosecond to evaporate, during which time it would briefly have a luminosity of more than 200 times that of the Sun. Lower-mass black holes are expected to evaporate even faster; for example, a black hole of mass 1 TeV/c 2 would take less than 10 −88 ...

  3. 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]

  4. List of most massive black holes - Wikipedia

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    The supermassive black hole at the core of Messier 87, here shown by an image by the Event Horizon Telescope, is among the black holes in this list.. This is an ordered list of the most massive black holes so far discovered (and probable candidates), measured in units of solar masses (M ☉), approximately 2 × 10 30 kilograms.

  5. Astronomers observe black hole that may have formed gently

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    Black holes have previously been spotted orbiting with one other star or one other black hole in what are called binary systems. But this is the first known instance of a triple system with a ...

  6. Cygnus X-1 - Wikipedia

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    Cygnus X-1 (abbreviated Cyg X-1) [11] is a galactic X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus and was the first such source widely accepted to be a black hole. [12] [13] It was discovered in 1964 during a rocket flight and is one of the strongest X-ray sources detectable from Earth, producing a peak X-ray flux density of 2.3 × 10 −23 W/(m 2 ⋅Hz) (2.3 × 10 3 jansky).

  7. The secret recipe of black holes: Study finds they can 'cook ...

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    Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye.. New observations of several ...

  8. Black Hole of Calcutta - Wikipedia

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    The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war on the night of 20 June 1756.

  9. 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