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Scientists Probe Black Hole's Inner Sanctum
January 15, 2006 — How does matter spiral its way to the center of a galaxy and into the mouth of a supermassive black hole? A new study provides the best glimpse yet at the death spiral of material as it descends into ... > full story -
Cosmic Battle Creates Milky-Way Sized Tunnel
January 13, 2006 — A team of astronomers is announcing today that they have discovered a giant Milky Way-sized tunnel filled with high energy particles in a distant galaxy cluster. These new findings are of special ... > full story -
Spinning Black Hole Leaves Dent In Space-Time
January 11, 2006 — MIT scientists and colleagues have found a black hole that has chiseled a remarkably stable indentation in the fabric of space and time, like a dimple in one's favorite spot on the sofa. The finding ... > full story -
Scientists Find Black Hole's 'Point Of No Return'
January 11, 2006 — A team from MIT and Harvard has found that a certain type of X-ray explosion common on neutron stars is never seen around their black hole cousins, as if the gas that fuels these explosions has ... > full story -
Monster Black Holes Grow After Galactic Mergers
January 11, 2006 — An analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope's deepest view of the universe offers compelling evidence that monster black holes in the centers of galaxies were not born big but grew over time through ... > full story -
Astronomers Provide New Insights Into Massive Black Hole At Center Of The Milky Way And Surrounding Region
January 10, 2006 — UCLA astronomers can determine, for the first time, orbits of massive young stars located a few light months from the enormous black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy — stars that hold ... > full story -
Dying Star Reveals More Evidence For New Kind Of Black Hole
January 6, 2006 — Scientists using NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer have found a doomed star orbiting what appears to be a medium-sized black hole – a theorized "in-between" category of black hole that has ... > full story -
Astronomers Use Laser To Take Clearest Images Of The Center Of The Milky Way
December 21, 2005 — UCLA astronomers and colleagues have taken the first clear picture of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, including the area surrounding the supermassive black hole, using a new laser virtual star at ... > full story -
Witnessing The Flash From A Black Hole's Cannibal Act
December 14, 2005 — An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a third short gamma-ray burst, associated with a nearby elliptical galaxy. The low level of star formation in such galaxies and the ... > full story -
Chandra Proves Black Hole Influence Is Far Reaching
December 2, 2005 — Scientists using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered evidence of energetic plumes -- particles that extend 300,000 light years into a massive cluster of galaxies. The plumes are due to ... > full story
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