Coyote Curled at Sunset by Timothy Brooks. Grand prize winner of the National Geographic Student Expeditions Photo Contest.
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Coyote Curled at Sunset by Timothy Brooks. Grand prize winner of the National Geographic Student Expeditions Photo Contest.
Pink Opaque
An extraordinary outburst produced by a black hole in a nearby galaxy has provided direct evidence for a population of old, volatile stellar black holes. The discovery, made by astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, provides new insight into the nature of a mysterious class of black holes that can produce as much energy in X-rays as a million suns radiate at all wavelengths.
A paper describing these results will appear in the May 10, 2012, issue of The Astrophysical Journal.
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Image Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Curtin University/R. Soria et al., Optical: NASA/STScI/ Middlebury College/F. Winkler et al.