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Astronomers discovered supermassive black hole in an ultracompact dwarf galaxy

Astronomers discovered supermassive black hole in an ultracompact dwarf galaxy

A team of scientists from the Faculty of Physics and Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University leading an international collaboration with members from Europe, Chile, United States, and Australia discovered a super massive black hole in the center of the Fornax galaxy.
Researchers have found 15 new cosmic whistles unlike any detected before

Researchers have found 15 new cosmic whistles unlike any detected before

The source is a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light years away. A team of researchers from the Breakthrough Listen initiative has detected 15 new fast radio bursts, flashes of energy that we pick up as radio chirps. All 15 of these signals came from a single source — FRB 121102, the only FRB to ever repeat .
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