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Most Detailed Cosmological Simulation To Date Incorporates Black Holes, Helps Predict Where To Aim Future Telescopes
June 28, 2007 Using a new computer model of galaxy formation, researchers have shown that growing black holes release a blast of energy that fundamentally regulates galaxy evolution and black hole growth itself. ... > full story -
Neutron Stars Join The Black Hole Jet Set
June 27, 2007 NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed an X-ray jet blasting away from a neutron star in a binary system. This discovery may help astronomers understand how neutron stars as well as black ... > full story -
NASA Establishes New Office To Study Cosmic Phenomena
June 27, 2007 NASA has created a new office to study in more detail some of the universe's most exotic phenomena: dark energy, black holes and cosmic microwave background radiation. The new Einstein Probes Office ... > full story -
Old Math Model Aids Search For Gravitational Waves
June 22, 2007 A new way of looking at a previously abandoned mathematical model might help astronomers study and accurately identify an exotic clan of gravitational ... > full story -
Astronomers May Have Solved Information Loss Paradox To Find Black Holes Do Not Form
June 20, 2007 "Nothing there," is what Case Western Reserve University physicists concluded about black holes after spending a year working on complex formulas to calculate the formation of new black holes. In ... > full story -
It's A Gas When Galaxies Merge -- A Lot Of Gas
June 14, 2007 Picture the Milky Way galaxy--a disk of stars and gas, a stellar spheroid and an enormous halo of dark matter. It spirals around a black hole that is supermassive--about 3 million solar masses. The ... > full story -
Astronomers Find Most Distant Black Hole
June 13, 2007 A team of astronomers from Canada, France and the United States is announcing the discovery of a record-breaking black hole located nearly 13 billion light years from the Earth. Details of the ... > full story -
Scientists Reveal How Supermassive Black Holes Bind Into Pairs During Galaxy Mergers
June 8, 2007 Now, using supercomputers to simulate galaxy mergers, scientists at Stanford and elsewhere have seen the formation of a new type of structure-a central disk of gas that can be from a hundred to a few ... > full story -
The Loneliest Black Holes In The Universe
June 4, 2007 Actively growing supermassive black holes in centers of galaxies are common even in cosmic voids, the most rarefied and empty regions of the universe. In a study of more than 1,000 void galaxies, ... > full story -
Galaxy Cluster Takes It To The Extreme
May 30, 2007 Evidence for an awesome upheaval in a massive galaxy cluster was discovered in an image made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The origin of a bright arc of ferociously hot gas extending over two ... > full story
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