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Fast-Flying Black Hole Yields Clues To Supernova Origin
November 19, 2002 — A nearby black hole, hurtling through the plane of our galaxy like a cannonball, has given what some astronomers say is their best evidence yet that stellar-mass black holes are made in supernova ... > full story -
Gravity Waves Analysis Opens "Completely New Sense"
October 29, 2002 — Sometime within the next two years, researchers will detect the first signals of gravity waves -- those weak blips from the far edges of the universe passing through our bodies every second. ... > full story -
Zooming Star Points To Supermassive Black Hole At The Center Of The Milky Way
October 17, 2002 — Supermassive black holes – the name given to black holes whose mass is more than 1,000,000 times the mass of the sun – can be found at the center of many galaxies. Scientists from the ... > full story -
Scientists Worldwide Race To Observe Fading Gamma-Ray Burst
October 10, 2002 — Scientists have seen the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst just nine minutes after the explosion, a result of precision coordination and fast slewing of ground-based telescopes upon detection of the ... > full story -
Camera Eyes Dusty Spirals In Milky Way Center
October 3, 2002 — The highest resolution mid-infrared picture ever taken of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals details about dust swirling into the black hole that dominates the ... > full story -
Hubble Discovers Black Holes In Unexpected Places
September 18, 2002 — Medium-size black holes actually do exist, according to the latest findings from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, but scientists had to look in some unexpected places to find them. The previously ... > full story -
Australian-American Duo Shows Black Holes In Collision
August 5, 2002 — One of the more spectacular phenomena in the cosmos might just be the collision of supermassive black holes that accompanies the merger of galaxies. But the astronomical community has not had ... > full story -
"Quiet" Star Wasn't Quiet After All, Say Scientists At National Space Science And Technology Center
July 9, 2002 — For more than two years the star was "quiet." Or so scientists thought. But the X-ray pulsar EXO 2030+375 was abuzz with activity. Scientists simply lacked the ability to "hear" it ... > full story -
Scientists Observe Light Fighting To Escape Black Hole's Pull
June 27, 2002 — Scientists have found new evidence that light emanating from near a black hole loses energy climbing out of a gravitational well created by the black hole, a key prediction of Einstein's theory ... > full story -
Black Holes In Distant Galaxies Point To Wild Youth, Chandra Discovers
June 5, 2002 — Like 'flower power' tattoos on aging ex-hippy baby boomers, unexpectedly large numbers of neutron stars and black holes in elliptical galaxies suggest some of these galaxies lived through a ... > full story
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