• Orbiting Binary Black Hole Investigation Satellite (ORBIS) is a small space telescope still in development by Japan that will study binary black holes...
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    A supermassive black hole (SMBH or sometimes SBH) is the largest type of black hole, with its mass being on the order of millions to billions times the...
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  • proprietary operating system used by PlayStation 4 Orbiting Binary Black Hole Investigation Satellite (ORBIS), a space telescope in development by Japan...
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    to detect about 1,250 transiting exoplanets orbiting the targeted stars, and an additional 13,000 orbiting stars not targeted but observed. After the end...
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  • Frame dragging would cause the orbital plane of stars orbiting near a supermassive black hole to precess about the black hole spin axis. This effect should...
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  • within the Solar System. Contrast natural satellite. ascending node The orbital node at which an orbiting object moves north through the plane of reference...
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    (hypothetical), and black holes. White dwarfs were found to be extremely dense soon after their discovery. If a star is in a binary system, as is the case...
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  • Collaboration) (2016). "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger". Physical Review Letters. 116 (6): 061102. arXiv:1602.03837...
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    circular orbit around the Galactic Center (where the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* resides) at a distance of 26,660 light-years, orbiting at roughly...
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    Three-body problem (category Orbits)
    general closed-form solution. The resulting dynamical system of three bodies orbiting each other is chaotic for most initial conditions, and in most cases the...
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    gravitational waves from a black hole merger. Indirectly, the effect of gravitational waves had been detected in observations of specific binary stars. Such pairs...
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    Chandra X-ray Observatory (category Satellites orbiting Earth)
    around a super massive black hole were observed in the Perseus Cluster (2003). TWA 5B, a brown dwarf, was seen orbiting a binary system of Sun-like stars...
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    pulsars, binary star systems, and supermassive black holes located at the centre of the galaxy. The X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) is a satellite for...
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    Scholtz and James Unwin proposed that a primordial black hole was responsible for the clustering of the orbits of the ETNOs. Their analysis of OGLE gravitational...
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    planets orbiting in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars and red dwarfs within the Milky Way. 11 billion of these estimated planets may be orbiting Sun-like...
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    Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton orbiting observatory. Robin Barnard et al. hypothesized that these are candidate black holes or neutron stars, which are heating...
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    Marronetti, P.; Zlochower, Y. (2006). "Accurate Evolutions of Orbiting Black-Hole Binaries without Excision". Physical Review Letters. 96 (11): 111101....
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    planets, orbiting the galaxy. Planets orbiting close to their star can become disrupted, potentially leading to orbital decay and an increase in orbital eccentricity...
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    Moon (redirect from Luna (satellite))
    The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It orbits at an average distance of 384,400 km (238,900 mi), about 30 times the diameter of Earth. Over time...
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  • (6 May 2020). "A naked-eye triple system with a nonaccreting black hole in the inner binary". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 67: L3. arXiv:2005.02541. Bibcode:2020A&A...
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    observe bright X-ray sources, mostly binary star systems, including a black hole, a neutron star, or a white dwarf, orbiting with a more typical star. In neutron...
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  • or investigate a proposed theory. Other problems involve unique events or occurrences that have not repeated themselves with unclear causes. Orbiting bodies...
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  • to astrophysics with telescopes orbiting in space. A large amount of the resources are spent for studying black holes in the Milky Way Galaxy and in the...
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    complete an orbit. Planets orbiting around one of the stars in binary systems are more easily detectable, as they cause perturbations in the orbits of stars...
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  • object) low-mass x-ray binary, an X-ray-luminous binary star system in which one of the stars is a neutron star or black hole that is stripping material...
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    Sun (redirect from Sun's orbit)
    2025, making it the closest-orbiting manmade satellite as the first spacecraft to fly low into the solar corona. Solar Orbiter mission (SolO) was launched...
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    James Webb Space Telescope (category Artificial satellites at Earth-Sun Lagrange points)
    Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, their satellites, and comets, asteroids and minor planets at or beyond the orbit of Mars. Webb has the near-IR and mid-IR...
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    disturbances. Also, the Milky Way's central black hole seems to have neither too much nor too little activity. The orbit of the Sun around the center of the Milky...
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    2024. T Coronae Borealis is a binary star with a red-hued giant primary and a white dwarf secondary, the two stars orbiting each other over a period of...
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    high altitude sounding rocket experiments, and that was followed by orbiting (satellite) observatories. The first rocket flight to successfully detect a...
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