Black Hole News

Posted November 25, 2009:

• First Black Holes May Have Incubated in Giant, Starlike Cocoons

Posted November 10, 2009:

• Middleweight Black Hole: Swift, XMM-Newton Satellites Tune Into X-Ray Source

Posted September 22, 2009:

• New Vista Of Milky Way Center Unveiled

Posted September 19, 2009:

• Invading Black Holes Explain Cosmic Flashes

Posted September 15, 2009:

• Double Nucleus Galaxies: Ravenous Black Holes And Ripples In Space-Time Continuum

Posted September 14, 2009:

• Astrophysics: High Energy Galactic Particle Accelerator Located

Posted September 6, 2009:

• Milky Way's Not-So-Distant Cousin Likely Harbors Supermassive Black Hole

Posted September 2, 2009:

• Giant Galaxy Hosts Most Distant Supermassive Black Hole
• Precise Radio-Telescope Measurements Advance Frontier Of Gravitational Physics

Posted August 31, 2009:

• Cygnus X-1: Still A 'Star' After All Those Years

Posted August 22, 2009:

• New Way To Reproduce A Black Hole?

Posted August 11, 2009:

• First Black Holes Born Starving

Posted August 5, 2009:

• NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy

Posted August 4, 2009:

• GEMS Mission To Explore The Polarized Universe

Posted July 18, 2009:

• Turbulence Responsible For Black Holes' Balancing Act

Posted July 15, 2009:

• NASA's Fermi Finds Gamma-Ray Galaxy Surprises

Posted July 10, 2009:

• New Kind Of Astronomical Object Around Black Hole: Living Fossil Records 'Supermassive' Kick
• Simulations Illuminate Universe's First Twin Stars

Posted July 4, 2009:

• Super-Energetic Bursts Discovered Near Giant Black Hole

Posted July 2, 2009:

• New Class Of Black Holes Discovered

Posted June 25, 2009:

• Galaxies Coming Of Age In Cosmic Blobs

Posted June 7, 2009:

• New Class Of Dim Supernovae

Posted June 2, 2009:

• Stellar Explosion Displays Massive Carbon Footprint

Posted May 29, 2009:

• Ghost Remains After Black Hole Eruption

Posted May 28, 2009:

• XMM-Newton Takes Astronomers To A Black Hole's Edge

Posted April 29, 2009:

• Hundreds Of Rogue Black Holes May Roam The Milky Way, Swallowing Anything That Gets Too Close

Posted April 28, 2009:

• New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record

Posted April 26, 2009:

• Most Distant Detection Of Water In The Universe

Posted April 24, 2009:

• Chandra Shows Shocking Impact Of Galaxy Jet From Supermassive Black Hole

Posted April 23, 2009:

• Did 'Dark Gulping' Generate Black Holes In Early Universe?

Posted April 14, 2009:

• Spectacular Flaring In Extragalactic Jet From M87's Black Hole

Posted April 3, 2009:

• One Of Brightest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Seen

Posted March 31, 2009:

• Cracking The Crusts Of Neutron Stars

Posted March 26, 2009:

• Erratic Black Hole Regulates Itself

Posted March 25, 2009:

• Super-Sized Supernova: Scientists Observe Largest Exploding Star Yet Seen

Posted February 25, 2009:

• 40-Year Mystery Revisited: Newtonian System Mimics 'Baldness' Of Rotating Black Holes

Posted February 23, 2009:

• Most Extreme Gamma-Ray Blast Ever, Seen By Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Posted February 22, 2009:

• Cosmological Simulations Key To Understanding The Universe

Posted February 9, 2009:

• How Many Dimensions In The Holographic Universe?

Posted February 3, 2009:

• Mystery Of Twin Quasar Brightness Revealed
• Astronomers Discover Link Between Supermassive Black Holes And Galaxy Formation

Posted January 30, 2009:

• Black Hole Outflows From Centaurus A

Posted January 13, 2009:

• Active Galaxies Are Different Near And Far, Swift Spacecraft Shows

Posted January 7, 2009:

• Black Holes Lead Galaxy Growth

Posted January 6, 2009:

• Stars Forming Just Beyond Black Hole's Grasp At Galactic Center

Posted December 17, 2008:

• Seeing The Shape Of Material Around Black Holes For First Time

Posted December 13, 2008:

• Supermassive Black Hole Dissected With Natural Magnifying Glasses: 1,000 Times Clearer Than Best Telescopes Can Do

Posted December 10, 2008:

• Unprecedented 16-Year-Long Study Tracks Stars Orbiting Milky Way Black Hole

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