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Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel
April 4, 2012 — Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower, a new study finds. The findings, which relied on ultraviolet ... > full story -
Growing Up Supermassive: A Black Hole's Diet of Stars
April 2, 2012 — Astrophysicists have found a new explanation for the growth of supermassive black holes in the center of most galaxies: They repeatedly capture and swallow single stars from pairs of stars that ... > full story -
'Ordinary' Black Hole Discovered 12 Million Light Years Away
March 27, 2012 — Scientists have discovered an ‘ordinary’ black hole in the 12 million light year-distant galaxy Centaurus A. This is the first time that a normal-size black hole has been detected away ... > full story -
New Theory on Size of Black Holes: Gas-Guzzling Black Holes Eat Two Courses at a Time
March 23, 2012 — Astronomers have put forward a new theory about why black holes become so hugely massive -- claiming some of them have no 'table manners', and tip their 'food' directly into their mouths, eating more ... > full story -
Runaway Planets Zoom at a Fraction of Light Speed
March 22, 2012 — Seven years ago, astronomers boggled when they found the first runaway star flying out of our galaxy at a speed of 1.5 million miles per hour. The discovery intrigued theorists, who wondered: if a ... > full storyMore: -
Ultra-Fast Outflows Help Monster Black Holes Shape Their Galaxies
February 27, 2012 — A curious correlation between the mass of a galaxy's central black hole and the velocity of stars in a vast, roughly spherical structure known as its bulge has puzzled astronomers for years. ... > full story -
First Ultraluminous Source in Andromeda Galaxy Unmasked as 'Normal' Stellar Mass Black Hole
February 23, 2012 — Detailed observations show that the first ultraluminous X-ray source detected in our neighboring Andromeda galaxy is due to a stellar mass black hole swallowing material at very high rates. The ... > full storyMore: -
Fastest Wind from Stellar-Mass Black Hole
February 21, 2012 — Astronomers have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole. This result has important implications for understanding how this type of black hole ... > full story -
Black Hole Came from a Shredded Galaxy
February 15, 2012 — Astronomers have found a cluster of young, blue stars encircling the first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered. The presence of the star cluster suggests that the black hole was once at the ... > full storyMore: -
Milky Way's Black Hole Found Grazing on Asteroids
February 8, 2012 — The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids, which could explain the frequent flares observed, according to ... > full story
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