News articles tagged with 'black hole'
Swift, XMM-Newton satellites tune into a middleweight black hole
— 11 Nov 2009 14:03 | AstronomyWhile astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers... — full story
Invading black holes explain cosmic flashes
— 19 Sep 2009 11:15 | AstronomyBlack holes are invading stars, providing a radical explanation to bright flashes in the universe that are one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy today... — full story
Giant galaxy hosts the most distant supermassive black hole
— 2 Sep 2009 12:20 | AstronomyUniversity of Hawaii (UH) astronomer Dr Tomotsugu Goto and colleagues have discovered a giant galaxy surrounding the most distant supermassive black hole ever found. The galaxy, so... — full story
Dartmouth researchers propose new way to reproduce a black hole
— 22 Aug 2009 15:27 | PhysicsDespite their popularity in the science fiction genre, there is much to be learned about black holes, the mysterious regions in space once thought to be absent of light. In a paper... — full story
First black holes kept to a strict diet
— 11 Aug 2009 12:01 | AstronomyA new supercomputer simulation designed to track the fate of the universe's first black holes finds that, counter to expectations, they couldn't efficiently gorge themselves on nearby... — full story
Turbulence responsible for black holes' balancing act
— 15 Jul 2009 00:47 | AstronomyNew simulations reveal that turbulence created by jets of material ejected from the disks of the Universe's largest black holes is responsible for halting star formation. Evan Scannapieco,... — full story
Living fossils hold record of 'supermassive' kick
— 10 Jul 2009 15:28 | AstronomyThe tight cluster of stars surrounding a supermassive black hole after it has been violently kicked out of a galaxy represents a new kind of astronomical object and a fossil record... — full story
A galaxy as particle accelerator
— 6 Jul 2009 14:47 | AstronomyIt is one of the largest among the giants: With two to three billion times the mass of our sun, the galaxy Messier 87 dominates the Virgo cluster. A supermassive black hole exists in... — full story
VLBA locates superenergetic bursts near giant black hole
— 3 Jul 2009 01:10 | AstronomyUsing a worldwide combination of diverse telescopes, astronomers have discovered that a giant galaxy's bursts of very high energy gamma rays are coming from a region very close to the... — full story
Intermediate-mass black hole
— 1 Jul 2009 17:00 | AstronomyThe detection of an ultraluminous X-ray source is now the strongest observational evidence for the existence of intermediate-mass black holes, as reported in a paper titled 'An intermediate-mass... — full story