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1 Astronomers discover the ‘Mighty Mouse’ of stellar remnants - [Wed, 08 Oct 2014 17:00:00 +0000 ] “You might think of this pulsar as the ‘Mighty Mouse’ of stellar remnants,” said Fiona Harrison of the California Institute of Technology. “It has all the power of a black hole but with much less mass.”The discovery, made with NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), is helping astronomers better understand mysterious sources of fierce X-rays, called ultraluminous X-ray sources, or ULXs. Before now, all ULXs were thought to be black holes. New data from NuSTAR show that at ...
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