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Astronomers See Disks Surrounding Black Holes, Strengthened Evidence For Current Explanation Of Quasars
For the first time,
researchers have found a way
to view the accretion disks
surrounding black holes and
verify that their true
... > full story
New Way To Weigh Giant Black Holes
How do you weigh the biggest
black holes in the universe?
One answer now comes from a
completely new and
independent technique that
astronomers have developed
using data from NASA's
... > full story
If The Large Hadron Collider Produced A Microscopic Black Hole, It Probably Wouldn't Matter
Particle colliders creating
black holes that could
devour the Earth. Sounds
like a great Hollywood
script. But, according to UC
... > full story
Radio Telescopes Reveal Unseen Galactic Cannibalism
Using radio telescopes,
astronomers have solved a
mystery of how the gigantic
black holes at the cores of
active galaxies known as
Seyfert galaxies get their
... > full story
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Black Holes Have Simple Feeding Habits
June 18, 2008 — The biggest black holes may feed just like the smallest ones, according to data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based telescopes. This discovery supports the implication of ... > full story -
GLAST Lifts Off On Gamma Ray Mission
June 11, 2008 — NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope successfully launched aboard a Delta II rocket June 11. The spacecraft will study the highest-energy form of light, helping scientists to answer questions about ... > full story -
New Method Developed To Weigh, Resolve Distant Black Holes
June 5, 2008 — A new, simple method to learn about black holes up to eight billion light years away -- thousands of times farther away than black holes can be measured today -- has been developed. Astronomers and ... > full story -
Supernova Birth Seen For First Time
May 21, 2008 — Astronomers have seen the aftermath of spectacular stellar explosions known as supernovae before, but until now no one has witnessed a star dying in real time. While looking at another object in the ... > full story -
Physicists Demonstrate How Information Can Escape From Black Holes
May 15, 2008 — Physicists have provided a mechanism by which information can be recovered from black holes -- and the first plausible mechanism for how information might escape from black holes, those regions of ... > full story -
Searching The Heavens For Pulsars And Supermassive Black Holes
May 4, 2008 — A new space mission, due to launch this month, is going to shed light on some of the most extreme astrophysical processes in nature -- including pulsars, remnants of supernovae, and supermassive ... > full story -
Big Black Holes Cook Flambeed Stellar Pancakes
May 2, 2008 — Astrophysicists now say the fate of stars that venture too close to massive black holes could be even more violent than previously believed. Not only are they crushed by the black hole's huge ... > full story -
Secrets Of Massive Black Hole Unveiled: Workings Of Giant Galactic Particle Accelerators Discovered
April 24, 2008 — At the cores of many galaxies, supermassive black holes expel powerful jets of particles at nearly the speed of light. Just how they perform this feat has long been one of the mysteries of ... > full story -
Milky Way's Giant Black Hole 'Awoke From Slumber' 300 Years Ago
April 16, 2008 — Astronomers have discovered that our galaxy's central black hole let loose a powerful flare three centuries ago. The finding helps resolve a long-standing mystery: why is the Milky Way's black hole ... > full story -
First Merger Of Three Black Holes Simulated On A Supercomputer
April 12, 2008 — The same team of astrophysicists that cracked the computer code simulating two black holes crashing and merging together has now, for the first time, caused a three-black-hole collision. Scientists ... > full story
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