Jovmean: Distant Black Hole Collides With a Mysterious Object - Scientists detect what is either the heaviest known neutron star or the least massive black hole ever recorded

Friday, July 17, 2020

Distant Black Hole Collides With a Mysterious Object - Scientists detect what is either the heaviest known neutron star or the least massive black hole ever recorded

Title:
Distant Black Hole Collides With a Mysterious Object

Author:
Alex Fox

Published:
Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2020
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/distant-black-hole-collides-mysterious-object-180975193/

From the article:
Roughly 780 million years ago and a correspondingly distant 780 million light-years away, a strange stellar object was devoured by a black hole 23 times more massive than the sun.

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Friday, July 17, 2020

Distant Black Hole Collides With a Mysterious Object - Scientists detect what is either the heaviest known neutron star or the least massive black hole ever recorded