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How the Event Horizon Telescope observes black holes
Nobel laureates Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany) and Andrea Ghez (University of California in Los Angeles, USA) had already demonstrated through stellar motions that a black hole resides at the center ...
Third-generation gravitational-wave detectors
The era of gravitational wave astronomy has begun – with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo having observed 90 signals as of June 2022. In the coming years, these kilometer-sized and high-precision observatories, together with the Japanese KAGRA and the ...
Deep looks into the center of the Milky Way
There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way. Its strong radio emissions led to the name Sagittarius A*: It is the strongest (A) radio source in the constellation Sagittarius. The nature of this radio source has been confirmed by stellar ...
Continuous gravitational waves
Cosmic lighthouses born in supernova explosions When stars at least eight times as massive as our Sun run out of nuclear fuel, their lives end in supernovae. These explosions bring forth new cosmic objects: neutron stars. Because of their strong magnetic ...
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Understanding Einstein
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