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Astronomers Hot On The Trail Of Nature's Exotic Flashers
June 8, 2005 — Unlike gamma-ray bursts created by collapsing stars, "short" gamma-ray bursts - flashes of light that last less than two seconds - are thought to come from the merger of two neutron stars. For the ... > full story -
Scientists Watch Black Hole Born In Split-Second Light Flash
May 17, 2005 — After 30 years, they finally caught one. Scientists on Monday have for the first time detected and pinned down the location of a so-called "short" gamma-ray burst, lasting only 50 milliseconds. The ... > full story -
Now Scientists Think You'd Be 'Roasted' In A Black Hole
April 19, 2005 — Contrary to established scientific thinking, you'd be roasted and not "spaghettified" if you stumbled into a supermassive black hole. New research being presented at the Institute of Physics ... > full story -
Era Of Galaxy And Black Hole Growth Spurt Discovered
April 11, 2005 — Distant galaxies undergoing intense bursts of star formation have been shown by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to be fertile growing grounds for the largest black holes in the Universe. ... > full story -
Exotic Physics Finds Black Holes Could Be Most 'Perfect,' Low-Viscosity Fluid
March 25, 2005 — In three spatial dimensions, it is a close relative of the quark-gluon plasma, the super-hot state of matter that hasn't existed since the tiniest fraction of a second after the big bang that ... > full story -
X-Rays Signal Presence Of Elusive Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
March 23, 2005 — A University of Michigan team's finding of peculiar x-ray outbursts coming from a black hole indicate that the object has a mass of about 10,000 suns, which would make it part of a new class of ... > full story -
Simulations Reveal Surprising News About Black Holes
March 10, 2005 — For more than 30 years, astrophysicists have believed that black holes can swallow nearby matter and release a tremendous amount of energy as a result. Until recently, however, the mechanisms that ... > full story -
Black Holes Influence Knowledge Of The Universe
March 10, 2005 — Black holes have a reputation for voraciously eating everything in their immediate neighborhood, but these large gravity wells also affect electromagnetic radiation and may hinder our ability to ever ... > full story -
Black Holes In A Radar Trap
February 24, 2005 — European astronomers succeeded for the first time to confirm the signatures predicted near Black Holes by Albert Einstein's theory of Relativity in the light of the cosmic X-ray background. The ... > full story -
Astronomers Measure Mass Of Smallest Black Hole In A Galactic Nucleus
February 23, 2005 — A group led by astronomers from Ohio State University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have measured the mass of a unique black hole, and determined that it is the smallest found so ... > full story
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