Black Hole News

Posted December 27, 2010:

• When the Black Hole Was Born: Astronomers Identify the Epoch of the First Fast Growth of Black Holes

Posted December 20, 2010:

• How Often Do Giant Black Holes Become Hyperactive?

Posted December 8, 2010:

• Black Holes and Warped Space Revealed by Powerful New Array of Radio Telescopes

Posted December 2, 2010:

• Distribution of Gravitational Wave Sources Predicted

Posted November 24, 2010:

• 'Russian Doll' Galaxy Reveals Black Holes' True Power

Posted November 18, 2010:

• Pushing Black-Hole Mergers to the Extreme: Scientists Achieve 100:1 Mass Ratio in Simulation

Posted November 16, 2010:

• Artificial Black Holes Made With Metamaterials: Design for Human-Made Light Trapping Device Could Help Harvest Light for Solar Cells

Posted November 15, 2010:

• NASA's Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black Hole

Posted November 9, 2010:

• NASA's Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in Our Galaxy

Posted November 8, 2010:

• Simulating Black Hole Radiation With Lasers: Lasers Produce the First Hawking Radiation Ever Detected

Posted November 3, 2010:

• Cosmic Curiosity Reveals Ghostly Glow of Dead Quasar
• Neutron Stars May Be Too Weak to Power Some Gamma-Ray Bursts; Black Holes May Be Power Source

Posted October 26, 2010:

• Precocious Galaxy Cluster Identified by Chandra

Posted October 20, 2010:

• Star, Not So Bright: Model Explains Evolution of Unusual Black Hole Binary System

Posted September 27, 2010:

• Gigantic Mirror for X-Radiation in Outer Space

Posted September 8, 2010:

• Extreme X-Ray Source Suggests New Class of Black Hole

Posted August 25, 2010:

• When Galaxies Collide: How the First Super-Massive Black Holes Were Born

Posted August 19, 2010:

• Galactic 'Super-Volcano' in Action

Posted August 18, 2010:

• How Much Mass Makes a Black Hole? Astronomers Challenge Current Theories

Posted August 12, 2010:

• NGC 4696: A Cosmic Question Mark

Posted August 5, 2010:

• Physicists Use Offshoot of String Theory to Describe Puzzling Behavior of Superconductors

Posted August 3, 2010:

• Physicists Develop Model That Pushes Limits of Quantum Theory, Relativity

Posted July 22, 2010:

• Hyperfast Star Was Booted from Milky Way

Posted July 21, 2010:

• Black Hole Jerked Around Twice

Posted July 8, 2010:

• Rain of Giant Gas Clouds Create Active Galactic Nuclei: New Research Explains How Galaxy Centers Light Up

Posted July 7, 2010:

• Black Hole Blows Big Bubble

Posted July 1, 2010:

• X-Ray Satellite Homes in on a Black Hole's Jets

Posted June 24, 2010:

• Galaxy Encounter Fires Up Quasar

Posted June 21, 2010:

• Extreme Gravity Effects Revealed by Oxygen for the First Time in Neutron Star That 'Eats' White Dwarf

Posted June 3, 2010:

• Scientists Create Artificial Mini 'Black Hole'

Posted June 1, 2010:

• Backwards Black Holes Might Make Bigger Jets

Posted May 26, 2010:

• NASA's Swift Survey Finds 'Smoking Gun' of Black Hole Activation

Posted May 25, 2010:

• Supermassive Black Holes May Frequently Roam
• Nearby Black Hole Is Feeble and Unpredictable

Posted May 11, 2010:

• Black Holes: Gas Blowers of the Universe
• Herschel Finds a Hole in Space: Surprising Glimpse Into End of Star-Forming Process

Posted May 10, 2010:

• Astronomers Find Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole

Posted April 29, 2010:

• 'Survivor' Black Holes May Be Mid-Sized

Posted April 19, 2010:

• NASA's Swift Catches 500th Gamma-Ray Burst

Posted April 16, 2010:

• Supermassive Black Holes Strip Massive Galaxies of Star-Forming Gases

Posted April 14, 2010:

• Have Black Holes Been Turning Up the Volume on the Cosmic Radio Background?

Posted April 13, 2010:

• Mystery Object in Starburst Galaxy M82 Possible Micro-Quasar

Posted April 6, 2010:

• Our Universe at Home Within a Larger Universe? So Suggests Physicist's Wormhole Research

Posted April 1, 2010:

• Fermi Maps an Active Galaxy's 'Smokestack Plumes'

Posted March 25, 2010:

• After Growth Spurt, Supermassive Black Holes Spend Half Their Lives Veiled in Dust

Posted March 22, 2010:

• Supermassive Black Holes: Hinting at the Nature of Dark Matter?

Posted March 17, 2010:

• Astronomers Discover Most Primitive Supermassive Black Holes Known

Posted March 16, 2010:

• New Hubble Treasury Project to Survey First Third of Cosmic Time

Posted March 2, 2010:

• NASA's Fermi Probes 'Dragons' of the Gamma-Ray Sky

Posted February 17, 2010:

• Jets of Particles Streaming from Black Holes in Far-Away Galaxies Different Than Previously Thought

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