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| New kind of cosmic flash may reveal birth of a black hole Posted: 03 May 2013 08:04 PM PDT According to an astrophysicist, a new kind of cosmic flash may reveal something never seen before: the birth of a black hole. |
| Hubble sees the remains of a star gone supernova Posted: 03 May 2013 12:15 PM PDT These delicate wisps of gas make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants from when an unstable progenitor star exploded violently as a supernova around 600 years ago. There are several types of supernovae, but for SNR 0519 the star that exploded is known to have been a white dwarf star -- a sun-like star in the final stages of its life. |
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