Posts Tagged ‘black holes’
Early black holes gorged on ‘fast food’
CARNEGIE MELLON (US) — The largest cosmological simulation ever conducted shows that a steady diet of cold dense gas caused the rapid growth of the early supermassive black holes. Continue…
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Science & Technology - Dec 14, 2011 21:00 - 0 Comments
Massive black holes may be quasar relics
U. MICHIGAN (US) — Two newly discovered black holes that are 10 billion times the mass of the sun—the largest ever found—may be the fossil remains of quasars from the early universe. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 7, 2011 10:20 - 0 Comments
New black holes pop up in young galaxy
YALE (US) — Astronomers have discovered what appear to be three fast-growing, supermassive black holes in a relatively young, still-forming galaxy. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 6, 2011 14:44 - 2 Comments
Massive black holes shatter record
U. TORONTO (CAN) — An international team of astronomers has discovered two gigantic black holes with masses about 10 billion times the mass of our sun. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 14, 2011 11:00 - 0 Comments
New proof: Black holes rip apart stars
NYU (US) — Astrophysicists have found evidence of black holes destroying stars, a long-sought phenomenon that provides a new window into general relativity. (more…)
Top Stories - Oct 4, 2011 8:34 - 2 Comments
Gas ‘bullets’ shoot from giant black hole
SOUTHAMPTON (UK) — Astronomers have uncovered some striking features in the gases emitted from the regions close to one of the brightest supermassive black holes known to exist. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 22, 2011 13:57 - 2 Comments
Black hole crashes into star: Dark matter?
PRINCETON / NYU (US) — Scientists looking for evidence of dark matter are studying the results of simulated collisions between stars and black holes. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jul 25, 2011 16:12 - 0 Comments
Gargantuan, farthest water mass found
CALTECH/U. COLORADO (US) — A mass of water vapor in a quasar that is 30 billion trillion miles away is at least 140 trillion times that of all the water in the world’s oceans combined, and 100,000 times more massive than the sun. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jul 7, 2011 14:28 - 6 Comments
Universe’s most distant quasar
U. NOTTINGHAM (UK) — Astronomers have discovered the most distant quasar to date—the brightest object yet found from a time when the Universe was less than 800 million years old. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 17, 2011 12:17 - 0 Comments
Black hole eats star, spews light beam
U. WARWICK (UK) — A big, bright bang recorded by astronomers came from a distant black hole that ripped apart a star and blasted an energy beam to Earth. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 13, 2011 11:51 - 0 Comments
Inner look shows what fuels black holes
GEORGIA TECH (US) — X-ray fingerprints are giving astrophysicists an up-close view of the eating habits of giant black holes. (more…)
Top Stories - Apr 12, 2011 10:02 - 0 Comments
Black hole smash-ups eject ‘doughnuts’
CALTECH / CORNELL (US) — Physicists now have a way to visualize how space and time warp when black holes slam into each other. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 17, 2011 12:26 - 0 Comments
Black hole with mass of 6.6 billion suns
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US) — The enormous mass of the black hole at the center of galaxy M87 makes it a prime candidate for future studies to “see” a black hole for the first time. (more…)
Top Stories - Jan 13, 2011 14:45 - 0 Comments
Largest cluster of black-hole pairs
CALTECH (US) — The discovery of 16 close-knit pairs of supermassive black holes in merging galaxies gives astronomers a glimpse into how these behemoths and their host galaxies fuse. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 3, 2010 16:20 - 0 Comments
Dead quasar ‘illuminates’ black holes
YALE (US) — An object discovered two years ago by an amateur astronomer is revealing surprising clues about the life cycle of black holes. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 27, 2010 6:43 - 0 Comments
Hidden X-ray source found in Milky Way
PENN STATE (US) — Astronomers have discovered an X-ray emitting object that had been hidden inside the constellation Centaurus. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 21, 2010 12:49 - 0 Comments
This star’s big but not so bright
NORTHWESTERN (US) — In a galaxy far away, an exceptionally massive black hole is traveling around a massive star in an unusually tight orbit. Also odd, the star is not as bright as it should be. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 6, 2010 13:14 - 0 Comments
New model gives quantum theory a shove
SYRACUSE U. (US)—Physicists recently developed a new theoretical model to explain how, under certain rare conditions, more than one electron can simultaneously occupy the same quantum state. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jul 26, 2010 11:45 - 1 Comment
Fast stars fueled by black hole
U. MICHIGAN (US)—The black hole at the center of the galaxy is to blame for sling-shotting “hypervelocity stars” out of the Milky Way at up to 1.8 million miles per hour, new research suggests. (more…)
