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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 -
Neutron Star Discovered Where A Black Hole Was Expected
November 3, 2005 — A very massive star collapsed to form a neutron star and not a black hole as expected, according to new results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This discovery shows that nature has a harder ... > full story -
Feeding The Monster
October 18, 2005 — Near-infrared images of the active galaxy NGC 1097, obtained with the NACO adaptive optics instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, disclose with unprecedented detail a complex central network of ... > full story -
NASA's Chandra Reveals New Star Generation
October 14, 2005 — NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed a new generation of stars spawned by a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This novel mode of star formation may solve several ... > full story -
Hubble Finds Mysterious Disk Of Blue Stars Around A Black Hole
September 21, 2005 — Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in our neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Though ... > full story -
Black Hole In Search Of A Home
September 15, 2005 — The detection of a super massive black hole without a massive host galaxy is the surprising result from a large Hubble and VLT study of quasars. This is the first convincing discovery of such an ... > full story
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