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First Stellar Outcast Discovered By Astronomers
February 22, 2005 — Using the MMT Observatory in Tucson, AZ, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) are the first to report the discovery of a star leaving our galaxy, speeding along at ... > full story -
NASA Observatory Confirms Black Hole Limits
February 22, 2005 — The very largest black holes reach a certain point and then grow no more. That's according to the best survey to date of black holes made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Scientists ... > full story -
Simulations Show How Growing Black Holes Regulate Galaxy Formation
February 12, 2005 — 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 ... > full story -
Penn State Scientists Spy On Black-Hole Eating Habits With 'LISA'
January 23, 2005 — As big fish eat little fish in the Earth's vast oceans, so too do supermassive black holes gorge on smaller black holes and neutron stars, making themselves more massive in the process. Using ... > full story -
Observation Of Material Circling A Supermassive Black Hole
January 11, 2005 — Astronomers from the University of Oxford and around the world have observed clumps of X-ray-emitting gas whipping around a black hole at 33,000 kilometres per second, one-tenth the speed of ... > full story -
See-Through Galaxy: Revealing The Milky Way's Center
January 11, 2005 — The center of our galaxy is hidden behind a "brick wall" of obscuring dust so thick that not even the Hubble Space Telescope can penetrate it. Astronomers Silas Laycock and Josh Grindlay ... > full story -
Going Beyond Einstein: Spacetime Wave Orbits Black Hole
January 11, 2005 — Astronomers Jon Miller (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and Jeroen Homan (MIT) have seen evidence of hot iron gas riding a ripple in spacetime around a black hole. This spacetime wave, ... > full story -
Chandra Finds Evidence For Swarm Of Black Holes Near The Galactic Center
January 11, 2005 — A swarm of 10,000 or more black holes may be orbiting the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, according to new results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This would represent the highest ... > full story -
Good News From Big Bad Black Holes
January 11, 2005 — Astronomers have discovered how ominous black holes can create life in the form of new stars, proving that jet-induced star formation may have played an important role in the formation of galaxies in ... > full story -
Astronomers Find Evidence For Tens Of Thousands Of Black Holes
January 11, 2005 — UCLA astronomers present the first evidence that tens of thousands of black holes are orbiting the monstrous black hole at the center of the Milky Way, 26,000 light years ... > full story
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