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Astronomers Reveal New Features of Galactic Black Holes

Artist’s conception of microquasar event captured by FAST Telescope. (Courtesy of Professor Wei Wang, Wuhan University)

International team of scientists reports on the first detection of a quasi-periodic oscillation signal in the radio band from a Galactic black hole system.

Black holes are the most mysterious objects in the universe, with features that sound like they come straight from a sci-fi movie.

Stellar-mass black holes with masses of roughly 10 suns, for example, reveal their existence by eating materials from their companion stars. And in some instances, supermassive black holes accumulate at the center of some galaxies to form bright compact regions known as quasars with masses equal to millions to billions of our sun...

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