Astrophysical: Black holes

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    Discovery of X-Ray Emission from the First Be/Black Hole System
    MWC 656 (=HD 215227) was recently discovered to be the first binary system composed of a Be star and a black hole (BH). We observed it with XMM-Newton, and...
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    Does the merger of two black holes emit light? The Subaru+GTC collaboration tries to answer this question
    A team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has made, with the Gran...
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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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    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...