Tag: Jeffrey McClintock

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Chandra pinpoints edge of accretion disk around black hole

An object known as XTE J1118+480 is a black hole roughly seven times the mass of our Sun. XTE J1118+480 is locked in a close binary orbit with a Sun-like…

May 7, 2001

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Uncovering new evidence for ‘event horizons’ surrounding black holes

With results that fundamentally differ from earlier black hole studies, Harvard researchers have shown that some recently discovered black holes are not only ultra-dense, but actually possess event horizons that…

January 11, 2001

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