The Milky Way May Have a Disk of Black Holes

Computer models are helping scientists on the hunt for small black holes and new data is giving us a better understanding of the universe’s largest explosions.

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Sources:
Black Holes:
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.101101
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/04/599437677/new-study-shows-the-center-of-the-milky-way-has-thousands-of-black-holes
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25029
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aacb34
http://chandra.harvard.edu/learn_bh.html
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/770/2/148/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/giant-black-hole-pair-photobombs-andromeda-galaxy.html
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/317837
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/milky-way-houses-up-to-100-million-black-holes-with-big-implications-for-ligo-2f691be6a876
https://www.iflscience.com/space/cosmic-collisions-have-created-rings-of-extreme-black-holes-in-galaxies/


Supernovas:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0563-4
https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05657
https://www.futurity.org/supernova-shock-breakout-amateur-astronomer-1688682-2/
https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01293
https://www.universetoday.com/24731/red-supergiant-star/
https://www.newsweek.com/astronomers-catch-glimpse-what-happens-just-violent-death-star-1110957
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/Kepler/caught-for-the-first-time-the-early-flash-of-an-exploding-star
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/basic-space/supernova-turns-inside-out-and-kicks-neutron-star/
https://www.space.com/6638-supernova.html
https://www.nature.com/physics/looking-back/bahcall/index.html
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612072
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Images:
https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA12348.html
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20228
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hoag%27s_object.jpg
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11447
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11447
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/Kepler/caught-for-the-first-time-the-early-flash-of-an-exploding-star
https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA17838.html
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0515a/