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X-Ray Shout Echoing Through Space
January 27, 2004 — ESA's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has imaged a spectacular set of rings which appear to expand, with a speed a thousand times faster than that of light, around the point in the sky where a ... > full story -
Squirty Star Imitates Black Hole
January 16, 2004 — Scientists using CSIRO's Australia Telescope near Narrabri in northern NSW have made a discovery that they hope will increase our understanding of a fundamental cosmic ... > full story -
Einstein Makes Extra Dimensions Toe The Line
December 19, 2003 — Scientists say Albert Einstein's principle of the constancy of the speed of light holds up under extremely tight scrutiny, a finding that rules out certain theories predicting extra dimensions ... > full story -
Neutron Stars May Merge More Often Than Thought
December 11, 2003 — A recent discovery of a double neutron-star system has helped to increase astronomers’ chances at collecting the information they need to better understand the black holes and neutron stars in ... > full story -
Most Distant X-Ray Jet Discovered Provides Clues To Big Bang
November 18, 2003 — The most distant jet ever observed was discovered in an image of a quasar made by NASA's Chandra X-ray ... > full story -
Flares Near Edge Of Our Galaxy's Central Black Hole Indicate Rapid Spin
October 31, 2003 — Razor-sharp optics on ground-based telescopes now allows astronomers to peer at events occurring near the very edge of our galaxy's central black hole, providing new clues about the massive but ... > full story -
Messages From The Abyss: VLT Observes Infrared Flares From Black Hole At Galactic Center
October 30, 2003 — An international team of astronomers led by researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching (Germany) [2] has discovered powerful infrared flares from the ... > full story -
European Space Agency's Integral Discovers Hidden Black Holes
October 21, 2003 — Integral, ESA's powerful gamma-ray space telescope, has discovered what seems to be a new class of astronomical objects. These are binary systems, probably including a black hole or a neutron ... > full story -
A Galaxy Far, Far Away Eyed By Linked Hawaiian Telescopes
October 3, 2003 — A galaxy far beyond our own Milky Way, with a monstrous, churning black hole in its center, has been observed by two optical telescopes working in unison as an interferometer. These observations ... > full story -
Gamma-Ray Bursts: Are We Safe?
September 23, 2003 — For a few seconds every day, Earth is bombarded by gamma rays created by cataclysmic explosions in distant galaxies. Such explosions, similar to supernovae, are known as ‘gamma-ray ... > full story
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