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NASA's WISE Mission Captures Black Hole's Wildly Flaring Jet
September 20, 2011 — Astronomers using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have captured rare data of a flaring black hole, revealing new details about these powerful objects and their blazing ... > full story -
Black Hole, Star Collisions May Illuminate Universe's Dark Side
September 19, 2011 — Researchers have unveiled a ready-made method for detecting the collision of stars with an elusive type of black hole that is on the short list of objects believed to make up dark matter. Such a ... > full story -
Small Distant Galaxies Host Supermassive Black Holes, Astronomers Find
September 15, 2011 — Using the Hubble Space Telescope to probe the distant universe, astronomers have found supermassive black holes growing in surprisingly small galaxies. The findings suggest that central black holes ... > full story -
NASA's Chandra Finds Nearest Pair of Supermassive Black Holes
September 1, 2011 — Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory discovered the first pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. Approximately 160 million light years from Earth, ... > full story -
How a Distant Black Hole Devoured a Star
August 24, 2011 — Astronomers have provided new insights into a cosmic accident that has been streaming X-rays toward Earth since late March. NASA's Swift satellite first alerted astronomers to intense and unusual ... > full story -
Escaping Gravity's Clutches: Information Could Escape from Black Holes After All, Study Suggests
August 10, 2011 — New research gives a fresh perspective on the physics of black holes. Conventional thinking asserts that black holes swallow everything that gets too close and that nothing can escape, but a new ... > full story -
Chandra X-Ray Observatory Images Gas Flowing Toward Black Hole
July 27, 2011 — The flow of hot gas toward a black hole has been clearly imaged for the first time in X-rays. The observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory will help tackle two of the most fundamental ... > full story -
Movement of Black Holes Powers Quasars, the Universe's Brightest Lights
July 20, 2011 — Research finds that black holes' spin and lateral movement can power bright jets of light known as ... > full story -
What Activates a Supermassive Black Hole? Galaxy Collisions Not the Culprits, Even in the Jam-Packed Early Universe
July 13, 2011 — A new study combining data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory has turned up a surprise. Most of the huge ... > full story -
Quantum 'Graininess' of Space at Smaller Scales? Gamma-Ray Observatory Challenges Physics Beyond Einstein
June 30, 2011 — The European Space Agency's Integral gamma-ray observatory has provided results that will dramatically affect the search for physics beyond Einstein. It has shown that any underlying quantum ... > full story
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