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Black holes are not cosmic vacuum cleaners, as some people claim. Nor are they space drains where everything simply disappears. So, what are they? What happens to things that get too close to them? The answers cannot be squeezed into the few seconds of a short social media video.
On the night of Thursday, August 27, we will witness a nearly total lunar eclipse, during which the Moon may take on reddish hues—a phenomenon popularly known as a "blood Moon."
Correction to: Comparing the Mgas-Nyso relation inside a giant molecular cloud
Román-Zúñiga, Carlos G.; Palau, A.; Ballesteros-Paredes, J.; Zamora-Avilés, M.; Peltonen, J.; Gutiérrez-Dávila, K.
2026/10, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 551, stag1578
What caused our Sun to be born? A recent paper by researchers from the Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (IRyA) suggests that the answer may lie in a small satellite galaxy that is slowly being devoured by our larger Milky Way Galaxy.
