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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 -
New Method of Measuring the Mass of Supermassive Black Holes
January 30, 2013 — Astronomers report the exciting discovery of a new way to measure the mass of supermassive black holes in galaxies. By measuring the speed with which carbon monoxide molecules orbit around such ... > full story -
Did an 8th Century Gamma Ray Burst Irradiate Earth?
January 21, 2013 — A nearby short duration gamma-ray burst may be the cause of an intense blast of high-energy radiation that hit the Earth in the 8th century, according to new ... > full story
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