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Artist’s impression showing how the binary system VFTS 243 might look like if we were observing it up close. The system, which is located in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, is composed of a hot, blue star with 25 times the Sun’s mass and a black hole, which is at least nine times the mass of the Sun. The sizes of the two binary components are not to scale: in reality, the blue star is about 200 000 times larger than the black hole. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada

Astronomers discover dormant black hole in another galaxy

An international group of astronomers has discovered a 'dormant' stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbour galaxy to our own.

  • 10.09.2019. Physicist Tomasz Rożek. PAP/Wojciech Olkuśnik
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    Polish ‘science populariser’ to advise the European Space Agency

    A Polish scientific communication expert has become the first person from the CEE to join the European Space Agency (ESA) advisory group.

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    Polish engineers to help bring samples from Mars to Earth

    Samples collected by the Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars are expected to reach Earth in 2031 after Polish engineers develop a chassis prototype for a rover responsible for collecting and transporting the samples.

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    Global Astrophysical Telescope System that can track centimetre-sized objects is now complete

    One of the world’s most advanced telescopes for tracking objects circling the Earth has now been launched.

  • Artistic vision: The background of the Milky Way distorted by the gravity of the free-floating black hole. As a result of its huge gravity, the black hole bends the space around it, causing distortion of images of the background stars behind it. Source: NASA, STScI, credit: FECYT, IAC.
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    Polish astronomers discover free-floating black hole in the Milky Way

    Two international teams of scientists, including astronomers from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, announced the discovery of a lonely black hole in the Milky Way. This is the first detection of this type.

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    ESA approves Comet Interceptor mission involving Polish scientists

    The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for the Comet Interceptor mission to study a so-called virgin comet or another interstellar object starting a journey to the inner Solar System.

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    Astronomer from University of Warsaw on new results of Gaia mission: It gives us the whole sky; it's revolutionary

    Until now, astronomers had very thorough knowledge of certain fragments of the sky. The Gaia mission gives us the whole sky. It's revolutionary, says Professor Łukasz Wyrzykowski from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw.

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    Polish scientists develop model to help understand how neutron stars emit X-rays

    A model that enables the analysis of the processes responsible for the emission of X-rays within neutron stars has been developed by scientists from the universities of Lodz and Warsaw.

  • The Milky Way and the location of its central black hole as viewed from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Credit: ESO/José Francisco Salgado (josefrancisco.org), EHT Collaboration
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    Astronomers capture image of black hole at the centre of Milky Way

    Scientists have presented the first image of a supermassive black hole in the centre of our galaxy.

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    Researchers detect gamma rays from recurrent nova outburst

    Scientists have detected ‘very high’ energy gamma rays from a star system in which a recurrent nova outburst took place.

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The geometric patterns, lines and zigzags that accompany the images of dancers (danzantes) carved in the rocks of the Peruvian Toro Muerto are not snakes or lightning bolts, but a record of songs - suggest Polish scientists who analyse rock art from 2,000 years ago.