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Betelgeuse has a close-orbiting companion that disturbs the red supergiant into an egg-like shape. New observations show how the two stars interact and how this could help explain the varying brightness of Betelgeuse.
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Supermassive black holes power tremendous jets that extend far beyond their galaxy. A new study finds how they can also warm material at the outer edge of a galaxy and reduce the rate of star production over time.
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Magnetars are neutron stars with magnetic fields a thousand times stronger than normal. One way that magnetars might form is through the merger of two small neutron stars.
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In the early Universe, neutrinos interacted strongly with other matter before some of them "decoupled." The heaviest of these decoupled neutrinos may be the solution to the matter-antimatter cosmic mystery.
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A new statistical model reveals more details about the ringdown period of merging black holes.
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From Universetoday RSS Feed: In Quantum Gravity, the Cosmological Constant May Behave Similar To The Quantum Hall Effect
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From Phys.org: Black holes don't live forever, but they might live long enough to look like white holes
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From Universetoday RSS Feed: Black Holes Don't Live Forever, But They Might Live Long Enough To Look Like White Holes
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The Universe expanded rapidly soon after the Big Bang, and we aren't sure why. But a theory of quadratic quantum gravity might be the answer.