Record-breaking black hole discovered; Named The Unicorn
Astronomers call it “The Unicorn,” breaking the record for the closest black hole to Earth and one of the smallest on record.
Credit: Ohio State illustration by Lauren Fanfer Author: Ross Caruso Updated: 6:29 PM EDT May 1, 2021
COLUMBUS, OHIO Not every day do you get to make a big discovery in the science community. Discoveries made from outside our planet, however, are even harder, especially when these discoveries that are several thousand light years away.
With the advancement in technology and interest in the field, black holes are becoming more and more popular in the scientific community.
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New Delhi: In 2011, the Nobel Prize was awarded to three scientists for discovering that the Universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate
through observations of distant supernovae. Now a team of Indian astronomers observing such distant supernovae have narrowed down the possible mechanisms of explosion of such supernovae which provide key measures of cosmological distances.
Their detailed study of a supernova called SN 2017hpa, a particular type of supernovae called I a supernova, which exploded in 2017 helped narrow down the explosion mechanism of the supernovae by observations of unburned carbon in the early phase spectra.
The explosive death of a star as a supernova is one of the most spectacular and catastrophic events in the Universe. Type Ia supernovae are the result of explosions of white dwarfs that exceed their mass beyond the Chandrasekhar limit through accretion of matter. Their homogeneous nature makes them extremely good standardizable candles to mea