Astrofísicas: Agujeros negros

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    Dynamical confirmation of a black hole in the X-ray transient Swift J1727.8‑1613
    The X-ray transient Swift J1727.8‑1613 ended its 10-month discovery outburst in June of 2024, when it reached an optical brightness comparable to pre-discovery...
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    Dynamics of galaxies and globular clusters unraveled with two-dimensional kinematics
    Two-dimensional stellar kinematics obtained with the integral-field spectrograph SAURON allow the classification of early-type galaxies into 'slow' and 'fast'...
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    El telescopio James Webb investiga moléculas orgánicas cerca de agujeros negros
    Una investigación, liderada por la Universidad de Oxford y en la que participa el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), ha conseguido estudiar, por...
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    Erratum: A search for optical and near-infrared counterparts of the compact binary merger GW190814
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    Evidence for a black hole in the historical X-ray transient A 1524-61 (= KY TrA)
    We present Very Large Telescope spectroscopy, high-resolution imaging, and time-resolved photometry of KY TrA, the optical counterpart to the X-ray binary A...
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    Evidence for inflows and outflows in the nearby black hole transient Swift J1727.8−162
    We present 20 epochs of optical spectroscopy obtained with the GTC-10.4m telescope across the bright discovery outburst of the black hole candidate Swift J1727...
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    Faint X-ray Outburst in XTE J1118+480
    The RXTE All-Sky monitor shows new detections of the black hole binary, XTE J1118+480, reported to be in optical outburst (ATEL #383). The source is first seen...
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    Fast X-ray/IR observations of the black hole transient Swift J1753.5–0127: From an IR lead to a very long jet lag
    We report two epochs of simultaneous near-infrared (IR) and X-ray observations of the low-mass X-ray binary black hole candidate Swift J1753.5–0127 with a...
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    First gravitational-wave burst GW150914: MASTER optical follow-up observations
    The Advanced LIGO observatory recently reported the first direct detection of the gravitational waves (GWs) predicted by Einstein & Sitzungsber. We report on...