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Early Black Holes Grew Big Eating Cold, Fast Food
December 12, 2011 — Researchers have discovered what caused the rapid growth of early supermassive black holes -- a steady diet of cold, fast food. Computer simulations show that thin streams of cold gas flow ... > full story -
Record Massive Black Holes Discovered Lurking in Monster Galaxies
December 5, 2011 — Astronomers using the Keck, Gemini and MacDonald observatories have discovered the largest black holes to date: Two monsters with masses equivalent to 10 billion suns that are threatening to consume ... > full storyMore: -
Birth of Famous Black Hole: Longstanding Mysteries About Object Called Cygnus X-1 Unraveled
November 17, 2011 — A precise distance measurement by the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) allowed astronomers to accurately calculate the mass and spin of a famous black hole, thus providing a complete description of ... > full storyMore: -
Hubble Directly Observes the Disk Around a Black Hole
November 4, 2011 — Scientists have observed a quasar accretion disk -- a glowing disk of matter that is slowly being sucked into its galaxy's central black hole. Their study makes use of a novel technique that uses ... > full story -
Planets Smashed Into Dust Near Supermassive Black Holes
October 28, 2011 — Fat doughnut-shaped dust shrouds that obscure about half of supermassive black holes could be the result of high speed crashes between planets and asteroids, according to a new theory from an ... > full story -
Suspects in the Quenching of Star Formation Exonerated
October 11, 2011 — Some supermassive black holes power luminous, rapidly growing objects called active galactic nuclei (AGN) that gather and condense enormous quantities of matter. Because astronomers had seen these ... > full story -
Astrophysicists Find Evidence of Black Holes' Destruction of Stars
October 11, 2011 — Astrophysicists have found evidence of black holes destroying stars, a long-sought phenomenon that provides a new window into general relativity. The research also opens up a method to search for the ... > full story -
Astrophysics and Extinctions: News About Planet-Threatening Events
October 7, 2011 — Space is a violent place. If a star explodes or black holes collide anywhere in our part of the Milky Way, they'd give off colossal blasts of lethal gamma-rays, X-rays and cosmic rays and it's ... > full story -
Cosmic Weight Watching Reveals Black Hole-Galaxy History
September 30, 2011 — Using state-of-the-art technology and sophisticated data analysis tools, a team of astronomers has developed a new and powerful technique to directly determine the mass of an active galaxy at a ... > full story -
Space Telescopes Reveal Secrets of Turbulent Black Hole
September 29, 2011 — Supermassive black holes at the hearts of active galaxies swallow large amounts of gas. During this feast they spill a lot of their 'food', which is discharged in turbulent outbursts. An ... > full storyMore:
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