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These ‘stars’ are actually 25,000 supermassive black holes

today22 February 2021

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If you hadn’t read the headline, you would have mistaken this image as that of stars.

This is actually a detailed map of 25,000 black holes that are possibly eating planets and stars at this very moment.

“This is the result of many years of work on incredibly difficult data,” University of Hamburg astronomer, Francesco de Gasperin explained. “We had to invent new methods to convert the radio signals into images of the sky.”

How did astronomers create this map?

Using low radio…

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Written by: Sukhbir Cheema


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