Posts Tagged ‘black holes’
Scientists wait to see black hole’s birth
CALTECH (US) — A new kind of cosmic flash may reveal the birth of a black hole for the first time. Continue…
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Science & Technology - Mar 6, 2013 9:23 - 1 Comment
Did black hole smash-up shape the Milky Way?
VANDERBILT / GEORGIA TECH (US) — There’s growing evidence that the center of the Milky Way galaxy has a violent past and two astronomers say a black hole collision can explain all the forensic clues. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 17, 2012 11:11 - 5 Comments
Modern math solves Ramanujan’s ‘vision’
EMORY / YALE / STANFORD (US) — Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s death-bed letter from 1920 has yielded a formula that could help physicists studying black holes. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 28, 2012 17:04 - 2 Comments
Most massive black hole fills strange galaxy
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US) — A black hole that is 17 billion times the mass of the sun could change theories about how black holes and galaxies form and evolve. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 5, 2012 10:28 - 0 Comments
Insanely fast star puts Einstein’s theory to the test
U. TORONTO (CAN) — A star orbits the massive black hole at the Milky Way’s center in 11.5 years—less time than Jupiter takes to orbit the Sun. (more…)
Top Stories - Oct 4, 2012 8:26 - 2 Comments
Two black holes survive in star cluster
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Scientists are re-thinking the fates of black holes after discovering two together in the same star cluster. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 2, 2012 11:40 - 6 Comments
Edge of a black hole: ‘You’re not coming back’
U. ARIZONA (US) — What happens to matter as it spirals into a black hole 6 billion times the mass of our sun? (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 17, 2012 15:00 - 0 Comments
After crash, black holes ‘ring’ like bells
CARDIFF U. (US) — The dying tones of black holes could reveal the cosmic crash that produced them, say researchers who discovered this new property. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 15, 2012 13:24 - 1 Comment
Massive galaxy cluster smashes cosmic records
MCGILL (CAN) — The discovery of a giant galaxy cluster—one of the largest objects in the universe—may force astronomers to rethink how these colossal structures, and the galaxies that inhabit them, evolve. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 8, 2012 12:16 - 3 Comments
3D galaxy map may solve dark matter mystery
NYU / U. PITTSBURGH / JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Astronomers have constructed the largest-ever 3D map of massive galaxies and distant black holes. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 6, 2012 15:46 - 0 Comments
Scientists hear ‘scream’ as black hole kills star
U. MICHIGAN (US) — For the first time, astrophysicists have detected the oscillating signal that heralds the last gasps of a star falling victim to a previously dormant supermassive black hole. (more…)
Top Stories - May 17, 2012 11:05 - 1 Comment
Team gets rare glimpse at how black holes grow
UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — Scientists have made the most detailed observation of a supermassive black hole’s accretion phase. (more…)
Top Stories - May 3, 2012 11:55 - 0 Comments
Black hole caught snacking on a star
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 1, 2012 11:11 - 0 Comments
Black hole wrangle ejects rogue stars
VANDERBILT(US) — Astronomers have identified nearly 700 new rogue stars that appear to have been ejected from the Milky Way. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 21, 2012 13:57 - 0 Comments
Telescope snaps gamma-ray bursts in orbit
PENN STATE (US) — The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope allows scientists to measure the super-fast jets that produce gamma-ray bursts. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 19, 2011 14:47 - 0 Comments
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. (more…)
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…)
