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Surprising Black Hole Discovery Changes Picture of Globular Star Clusters
October 3, 2012 — An unexpected discovery is forcing scientists to rethink their understanding of the environment in globular star clusters, tight-knit collections containing hundreds of thousands of stars. The ... > full storyMore: -
Case of Missing Quasar Gas Clouds Now Solved
October 2, 2012 — The case of the missing quasar gas clouds has been solved. A new article describes 19 distant quasars whose giant clouds of gas seem to have disappeared in just a few ... > full story -
Simulations Uncover 'Flashy' Secrets of Merging Black Holes
September 27, 2012 — Researchers are using computational models to explore the mergers of supersized black holes. Their most recent work investigates what kind of "flash" might be seen by telescopes when astronomers ... > full story -
Measuring the Universe’s 'Exit Door': For the First Time, an International Team Has Measured the Radius of a Black Hole
September 27, 2012 — The point of no return: In astronomy, it's known as a black hole -- a region in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Black holes that can be billions ... > full storyMore: -
Best Constraint on Mass of Photons, Using Observations of Super-Massive Black Holes
September 25, 2012 — A global team of scientists has determined the best constraint on the mass of photons so far, using observations of super-massive black holes. The researchers found a way to use astrophysical ... > full story -
Fireworks in the Early Universe: In Star-Forming Galaxies, Energy Bursts from Massive Central Black Hole Accretion
September 19, 2012 — Galaxies in the early universe grew fast by rapidly making new stars. Such prodigious star formation episodes, characterized by the intense radiation of the newborn stars, were often accompanied by ... > full story -
Spacetime Ripples from Dying Black Holes Could Help Reveal How They Formed
September 17, 2012 — Researchers have discovered a new property of black holes: their dying tones could reveal the cosmic crash that produced ... > full story -
Planets Can Form in the Galactic Center
September 11, 2012 — At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form a planet. Powerful gravitational forces from a supermassive black hole twist and warp the fabric of ... > full story -
Odd Galaxy Couple on Space Voyage
September 6, 2012 — Two very different galaxies drift through space together in a new image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The peculiar galaxy pair is called Arp ... > full story -
Hubble Spots a Supernova in NGC 5806
August 31, 2012 — A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 5806, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo (the Virgin). It lies around 80 million light years from Earth. Also visible in this ... > full story
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