"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic rays are produced in the jets of microquasars." ...

The star cluster is named Palomar 5, and it stretches out over 30,000 light-years. It is located about 80,000 light-years away. The discovery of the black holes was announced in 2021.

data on the trajectory of these stars indicates they were flung out of the Large Magellanic Cloud after a violent close ...

Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ventures too close—be it star, planet, or spacecraft—will be stretched and ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is located about 160,000 light-years from Earth ... forces tear the pair apart. One star is captured into a tight orbit around the black hole, while the other is ...