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Black Holes Spin Faster and Faster
May 23, 2011 — Astronomers have found that the giant black holes in the center of galaxies are on average spinning faster than at any time in the history of the universe. Scientists made the new discovery by using ... > full story -
Radio Telescopes Capture Best-Ever Snapshot of Black Hole Jets
May 20, 2011 — An international team, using radio telescopes located throughout the Southern Hemisphere, has produced the most detailed image of particle jets erupting from a supermassive black hole in a nearby ... > full story -
Caught in the Act: Herschel Detects Gigantic Storms Sweeping Entire Galaxies Clean
May 9, 2011 — With observations the Herschel space observatory, scientists have found gigantic storms of molecular gas gusting in the centres of many galaxies. Some of these massive outflows reach velocities of ... > full story -
E-MERLIN Set to Give Wizard New View of Hubble Deep Field Region
April 19, 2011 — The Hubble Deep Field (HDF), taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in the 1990s, is one of the most iconic images in astronomy. Now, astronomers at Jodrell Bank Observatory have produced a ... > full story -
Physicists Discover New Way to Visualize Warped Space and Time
April 11, 2011 — When black holes slam into each other, the surrounding space and time surge and undulate like a heaving sea during a storm. This warping of space and time is so complicated that physicists haven't ... > full story -
Newly Merged Black Hole Eagerly Shreds Stars
April 8, 2011 — A galaxy's core is a busy place, crowded with stars swarming around an enormous black hole. When galaxies collide, it gets even messier as the two black holes spiral toward each other, merging to ... > full story -
Cause of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Determined
April 7, 2011 — A new supercomputer simulation shows the collision of two neutron stars can naturally produce the magnetic structures thought to power the high-speed particle jets associated with short gamma-ray ... > full story -
Black Hole May Have Ripped Star Apart Causing Unprecedented Explosion
April 7, 2011 — Astronomers are studying one of the most puzzling cosmic blasts yet observed. More than a week later, high-energy radiation continues to brighten and fade from its location. Astronomers say that the ... > full story -
Black Hole Found in Binary Star System: More Than Five Times Greater in Mass Than Our Sun
March 25, 2011 — The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) has obtained the first spectroscopy data from the X-ray transient binary XTE J1859+226, which confirm the existence of a black hole. Only about 20 binary stellar ... > full story -
Matter Spotted a Millisecond from Black Hole -- But Is It Really Doomed?
March 24, 2011 — The European Space Agency's Integral gamma-ray observatory has spotted extremely hot matter just a millisecond before it plunges into the oblivion of a black hole. But is it really doomed? These ... > full story
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