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Tango Between Black Hole And Star Remnant May Explain Cosmic Explosion, MIT Team Reports
February 22, 2002 — Gamma-ray bursts, extremely powerful explosions occurring in distant parts of the universe, may be the energetic offspring of a cosmic dance between black holes and their dance-partner stars, said ... > full story -
Chandra Scores A Double Bonus With A Distant Quasar
February 8, 2002 — Two discoveries from a distant quasar - an enormous X-ray jet and an X-ray shadow cast by an intervening galaxy - are giving astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory cause to be doubly ... > full story -
Yale Astronomer Explores The Final Moments Of Merging Black Holes
February 7, 2002 — A slow dance lasting up to 10 million years between a super-massive black hole and a smaller one culminates in a violent outflow of energy, possibly powering the bright light known as a quasar, a ... > full story -
Black Hole Mystery Mimicked By Supercomputer
January 25, 2002 — Advanced supercomputers have simulated extremely powerful energy jets squirted out by black holes, the most exotic and powerful objects in the Universe. ... > full story -
Team Led By UMass Astronomer Gets Sharpest-Ever Look At The Heart Of The Milky Way
January 10, 2002 — A team of astronomers led by Daniel Wang of the University of Massachusetts has taken the sharpest-ever image of the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. The image, a panorama of the galaxy’s center ... > full story -
Chandra X-Ray Observatory Finds Ghosts Of Eruption In Galaxy Cluster
January 9, 2002 — "Ghostly" relics of an ancient eruption that tore through a cluster of galaxies were recently uncovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The discovery implies that galaxy clusters are ... > full story -
Hot Galactic Arms Point To Vicious Cycle Triggered By Black Hole
December 21, 2001 — NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed the aftermath of a titanic explosion that wracked the elliptical galaxy known as NGC 4636. This eruption could be the latest episode in a cycle of ... > full story -
In Powerful Gamma-Ray Bursts, Neutrinos May Fly Out First, Scientists Say
November 6, 2001 — The most powerful explosions in the universe, gamma-ray bursts, may come with a 10-second warning: an equally violent burst of ultra-high-energy particles called neutrinos. ... > full story -
Scientists Expect To "See" Miniature Black Holes
November 1, 2001 — An article soon to be published in the conference proceedings of Snowmass 2001, "The Future of Particle Physics," fuels excitement that scientists will be able to see the traces of miniature ... > full story -
New Energy Source "Wrings" Power From Black Hole Spin
October 23, 2001 — Scientists for the first time have seen energy being extracted from a black hole. Like an electric dynamo, this black hole spins and pumps energy out through cable-like magnetic field lines into the ... > full story
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