Black Hole News

Posted April 4, 2008:

• Quasars Quash Star Formation In Active Galactic Nuclei

Posted April 2, 2008:

• Black Hole Discovered In Center Of Enigmatic Omega Centauri

Posted April 1, 2008:

• Smallest Black Hole Ever Discovered Has Amazing Tidal Force

Posted March 26, 2008:

• World's First Movie Of Black Hole Birth

Posted March 10, 2008:

• Searching For A Tiny New Dimension, Curled Up Like The Universe Before The Big Bang

Posted February 16, 2008:

• Worldwide Hunt To Solve The Mystery Of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Posted February 8, 2008:

• Listening For The Cosmic Symphony: Supercomputer Will Help Scientists Listen For Black Holes

Posted January 29, 2008:

• Supernova Surprise: Black Holes May Pull Apart, Reignite White Dwarf Stars

Posted January 28, 2008:

• Hyperfast Star Proven To Be Alien

Posted January 14, 2008:

• Neutron Stars Can Be More Massive, While Black Holes Are More Rare
• Even Thin Galaxies Can Grow Fat Black Holes

Posted January 12, 2008:

• Milky Way Has Mysterious Lopsided Cloud Of Antimatter: Clue To Origin Of Antimatter

Posted January 10, 2008:

• Light Echo Show From Wrenching Gravity Outside Black Hole Predicted
• Rapidly Whirling Black Holes Revealed

Posted January 9, 2008:

• Galaxy May Hold Hundreds Of Rogue Black Holes
• New X-Ray Source In Nearby Galaxy Spawns Mystery
• Vast Cloud Of Antimatter Traced To Binary Stars

Posted January 8, 2008:

• Mysterious Explosion Detected In The Distant Past, Halfway Back To Big Bang

Posted January 4, 2008:

• Lack Of Gravitational Wave Prompts Fresh Look At Gamma Ray Burst

Posted December 18, 2007:

• Intergalactic 'Shot In The Dark' Shocks Astronomers
• 'Death Star' Black Hole Fires At Neighboring Galaxy

Posted October 31, 2007:

• Supermassive Black Holes Produce Powerful Galaxy-Shaping Winds

Posted October 30, 2007:

• Massive Black Hole Smashes Record

Posted October 25, 2007:

• Missing Black Hole Report: Hundreds Found!
• Hubble Spies Shells Of Sparkling Stars Around Quasar

Posted October 17, 2007:

• Heaviest Stellar Black Hole Discovered In Nearby Galaxy
• Five Years Of Space Exploration With ESA's Integral

Posted October 10, 2007:

• Dusty Winds Bursting Out Of Black Holes May Have Seeded Planets, Life

Posted September 28, 2007:

• Mysterious Energy Burst Stuns Astronomers

Posted September 25, 2007:

• Baby Booms And Birth Control In Space

Posted September 24, 2007:

• Some Black Holes May Not Be Black, But Rather 'Naked Singularities'

Posted August 27, 2007:

• Space-Time Distorts Near Neutron Stars As Einstein Predicted

Posted July 30, 2007:

• New Type Of Active Galaxy Discovered

Posted July 24, 2007:

• Chandra Catches 'Piranha' Black Holes

Posted July 5, 2007:

• New NASA Office Will Study Strange Cosmic Phenomena

Posted June 28, 2007:

• Most Detailed Cosmological Simulation To Date Incorporates Black Holes, Helps Predict Where To Aim Future Telescopes

Posted June 27, 2007:

• Neutron Stars Join The Black Hole Jet Set
• NASA Establishes New Office To Study Cosmic Phenomena

Posted June 22, 2007:

• Old Math Model Aids Search For Gravitational Waves

Posted June 20, 2007:

• Astronomers May Have Solved Information Loss Paradox To Find Black Holes Do Not Form

Posted June 14, 2007:

• It's A Gas When Galaxies Merge -- A Lot Of Gas

Posted June 13, 2007:

• Astronomers Find Most Distant Black Hole

Posted June 8, 2007:

• Scientists Reveal How Supermassive Black Holes Bind Into Pairs During Galaxy Mergers

Posted June 4, 2007:

• The Loneliest Black Holes In The Universe

Posted May 30, 2007:

• Galaxy Cluster Takes It To The Extreme

Posted May 29, 2007:

• Hubble Photographs Grand Design Spiral Galaxy M81
• Black Holes On The Loose
• How To Spot The Speediest Black Holes

Posted May 23, 2007:

• Gamma-Ray Bursts Active Longer Than Thought

Posted May 17, 2007:

• Adaptive Optics Pinpoints Two Supermassive Black Holes In Colliding Galaxies

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