Black Hole News

Posted May 15, 2013:

• Black Hole Powered Jets Plow Into Galaxy

Posted May 7, 2013:

• Milky Way Black Hole Snacks on Hot Gas

Posted May 3, 2013:

• New Kind of Cosmic Flash May Reveal Birth of a Black Hole
• 'Shockingly Bright' Burst of Gamma Rays from Dying Star in Distant Galaxy

Posted April 22, 2013:

• Using Black Holes to Measure the Universe's Rate of Expansion

Posted April 16, 2013:

• Strange New Bursts of Gamma Rays Point to a New Way to Destroy a Star

Posted March 28, 2013:

• Sprial Galaxy: Hidden Depths of Messier 77 Revealed

Posted March 6, 2013:

• Curtains Down for the Black Hole Firewall Paradox: Making Gravity Safe for Einstein Again

Posted March 1, 2013:

• Black Hole Collision May Have Sparked Celestial Fireworks in the Milky Way Several Million Years Ago

Posted February 27, 2013:

• Fermi's Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph
• NASA's NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin

Posted February 21, 2013:

• Journey to the Limits of Space-Time: Black Hole Simulations on Supercomputers Present New View of Jets and Accretion Disks

Posted February 13, 2013:

• Rare Explosion Created Our Galaxy's Youngest Black Hole, Study Suggests

Posted February 5, 2013:

• A Spiral Galaxy With a Secret

Posted January 30, 2013:

• New Method of Measuring the Mass of Supermassive Black Holes

Posted January 21, 2013:

• Did an 8th Century Gamma Ray Burst Irradiate Earth?

Posted January 19, 2013:

• Microquasar Makes a Giant Manatee Nebula

Posted January 7, 2013:

• Galaxy's Gamma-Ray Flares Erupted Far from Its Black Hole
• NASA's NuSTAR Catches Black Holes in Galaxy Web
• Detecting Dusty Clouds and Stars: New Radio Wave Technique Uncovers Shadows of Clouds and Stars in Milky Way's Center

Posted December 18, 2012:

• From Super to Ultra: Just How Big Can Black Holes Get?

Posted December 17, 2012:

• How White Dwarfs Mimic Black Holes

Posted December 13, 2012:

• Study Reveals a Remarkable Symmetry in Black Hole Jets

Posted December 12, 2012:

• Astronomers Discover 'Missing Link' of Black Holes

Posted December 11, 2012:

• Black Holes Have Properties That Resemble Dynamics of Both Solids and Liquids

Posted December 7, 2012:

• X-Ray Vision Can Reveal Moment of Birth of Violent Supernovae

Posted December 6, 2012:

• Searching for the Best Black Hole Recipe

Posted December 5, 2012:

• Galaxy-Wide Echoes from the Past: VLT Observations Identify Very Rare New Kind of Galaxy

Posted November 29, 2012:

• Multi-Wavelength View of Radio Galaxy Hercules A

Posted November 28, 2012:

• Giant Black Hole Could Upset Galaxy Evolution Models
• Record-Setting X-Ray Jet: X-Rays from Supermassive Black Hole 12.4 Billion Light Years from Earth
• Biggest Black Hole Blast Discovered: Most Powerful Quasar Outflow Ever Found

Posted October 29, 2012:

• Super-Massive Black Hole Inflates Giant Bubble

Posted October 25, 2012:

• Monster Galaxy May Have Been Stirred Up by Black-Hole Mischief

Posted October 24, 2012:

• Revealing a Mini-Supermassive Black Hole

Posted October 23, 2012:

• NASA's NuSTAR Spots Flare from Milky Way's Black Hole

Posted October 22, 2012:

• Milky Way's Black Hole Getting Ready for Snack
• Astronomers Study 2-Million-Light-Year 'Extragalactic Afterburner'

Posted October 8, 2012:

• New Surveys Peer Through Dust to Reveal Giant Supermassive Black Holes

Posted October 5, 2012:

• NASA's Swift Satellite Discovers a New Black Hole in Milky Way Galaxy

Posted October 4, 2012:

• Star Discovered Racing Around Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy: Crucial to Revealing Fabric of Space and Time

Posted October 3, 2012:

• Surprising Black Hole Discovery Changes Picture of Globular Star Clusters

Posted October 2, 2012:

• Case of Missing Quasar Gas Clouds Now Solved

Posted September 27, 2012:

• Simulations Uncover 'Flashy' Secrets of Merging Black Holes
• Measuring the Universe’s 'Exit Door': For the First Time, an International Team Has Measured the Radius of a Black Hole

Posted September 25, 2012:

• Best Constraint on Mass of Photons, Using Observations of Super-Massive Black Holes

Posted September 19, 2012:

• Fireworks in the Early Universe: In Star-Forming Galaxies, Energy Bursts from Massive Central Black Hole Accretion

Posted September 17, 2012:

• Spacetime Ripples from Dying Black Holes Could Help Reveal How They Formed

Posted September 11, 2012:

• Planets Can Form in the Galactic Center

Posted September 6, 2012:

• Odd Galaxy Couple on Space Voyage

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