Posts Tagged ‘black holes’
Science & Technology - Nov 3, 2010 16:20 - 1 Comment
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…)
Science & Technology - Jul 21, 2010 10:13 - 1 Comment
Quasar magnifies far-off galaxy
CALTECH (US)—Astronomers have discovered the first known case of a distant galaxy being magnified by a quasar acting as a gravitational lens. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 27, 2010 12:23 - 0 Comments
Massive black hole found devouring star
U. SHEFFIELD (UK)—Researchers have detected a stellar-mass black hole much farther away than any other previously known. With a mass of about 20 times that of the Sun, it is the second most massive stellar-mass black hole ever found and is entwined with a star that will soon become a black hole itself. (more…)
Society & Culture - Dec 30, 2009 17:22 - 0 Comments
Early galaxies as never seen before
U. COLORADO (US)—The Herschel Space Observatory has provided one of the most detailed views yet of space up to 12 billion years back in time. The images reveal thousands of newly discovered galaxies in their early stages of formation, says astrophysicist Jason Glenn. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 24, 2009 17:29 - 4 Comments
Massive cocoons cradled earliest black holes
COLORADO (US)—The first large black holes in the universe likely formed and grew deep inside gigantic, starlike cocoons that smothered their powerful x-ray radiation and prevented surrounding gases from being blown away. (more…)
