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Black Hole Powered Jets Plow Into Galaxy
The intense gravity of a
supermassive black hole can
be tapped to produce immense
power in the form of jets
moving at millions of miles
per hour. ... > full story
Milky Way Black Hole Snacks on Hot Gas
The Herschel space
observatory has made
detailed observations of
surprisingly hot gas that
may be orbiting or falling
towards the supermassive
black hole lurking at the
... > full story
New Kind of Cosmic Flash May Reveal Birth of a Black Hole
According to an
astrophysicist, a new kind
of cosmic flash may reveal
something never seen before:
the birth of a black hole. ... > full story
'Shockingly Bright' Burst of Gamma Rays from Dying Star in Distant Galaxy
A record-setting blast of
gamma rays from a dying star
in a distant galaxy has
wowed astronomers around the
world. The eruption, which
... > full story
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Using Black Holes to Measure the Universe's Rate of Expansion
April 22, 2013 — Scientists have developed a method that uses black holes to measure distances of billions of light years with a high degree of accuracy. The ability to measure these distances will allow scientists ... > full story -
Strange New Bursts of Gamma Rays Point to a New Way to Destroy a Star
April 16, 2013 — Scientists have pinpointed a new type of exceptionally powerful and long-lived cosmic explosion, prompting a theory that they arise in the violent death throes of a supergiant ... > full storyMore: -
Sprial Galaxy: Hidden Depths of Messier 77 Revealed
March 28, 2013 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of spiral galaxy Messier 77, one of the most famous and well-studied galaxies in the sky. The patches of red across this image ... > full story -
Curtains Down for the Black Hole Firewall Paradox: Making Gravity Safe for Einstein Again
March 6, 2013 — Scientists have revealed new insights into the life and death of black holes. Their findings dispel the so-called firewall paradox which shocked the physics community when it was announced in 2012 ... > full story -
Black Hole Collision May Have Sparked Celestial Fireworks in the Milky Way Several Million Years Ago
March 1, 2013 — There is growing evidence that several million years ago the center of the Milky Way galaxy was site of all manner of celestial fireworks and a pair of astronomers propose that a single event -- a ... > full story -
Fermi's Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph
February 27, 2013 — NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. Its wide-eyed Large Area Telescope sweeps across ... > full story -
NASA's NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin
February 27, 2013 — Two X-ray space observatories, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, have teamed up to measure definitively, for the first time, the spin ... > full story -
Journey to the Limits of Space-Time: Black Hole Simulations on Supercomputers Present New View of Jets and Accretion Disks
February 21, 2013 — Black holes shape the growth and death of the stars around them through their powerful gravitational pull and explosive ejections of energy. In a recent article, researchers predicted the formation ... > full story -
Rare Explosion Created Our Galaxy's Youngest Black Hole, Study Suggests
February 13, 2013 — New data suggest a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The remnant appears to be the product of a rare explosion in which matter ... > full story -
A Spiral Galaxy With a Secret
February 5, 2013 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope -- with a little help from an amateur astronomer -- has produced one of the best views yet of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106. Located a little over 20 million ... > full story
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