Black Holes
Does Starburst Activity Starve Galaxies of Gas?
[/caption]Using the partially constructed ALMA observatory, a group of astronomers have found new evidence that helps explain how young, star-forming…
Dodging Black Hole Bullets
[/caption] In mid-2009 a binary star system cataloged as H H1743–322 shot off something very unusual. Poised about 28,000 light…
In The Still Of The Night… Listening To The “Heartbeat” Of A Tiny Black Hole
[/caption] Is everything quiet in deep space? Not hardly. It's a place jammed with noises of all kinds. So much…
First Look at a Black Hole’s Feast
A true heart of darkness lies at the center of our galaxy: Sagittarius A* (pronounced "A-star") is a supermassive black…
Looking at Early Black Holes with a ‘Time Machine’
[/caption] What fed early black holes enabling their very rapid growth? A new discovery made by researchers at Carnegie Mellon…
Astronomers Find the Most Supermassive Black Holes Yet
[/caption] For years, astronomer Karl Gebhardt and graduate student Jeremy Murphy at The University of Texas at Austin have been…
Astronomers Discover Ancient ‘Ultra-Red’ Galaxies
[/caption]A team of astronomers, led by Jiasheng Huang (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) using the Spitzer Space Telescope, have discovered four…
Astronomers Complete the Puzzle of Black Hole Description
[/caption] Light may not be able to escape a black hole, but now enough information has escaped one black hole’s…
Hubble Telescope Directly Observes Quasar Accretion Disc Surrounding Black Hole
[/caption] Thanks to the magic of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of international astronomers have made an incredible…
Are Black Holes Planet Smashers?
[/caption] Some supermassive black holes are obscured by oddly shaped dust clouds which resemble doughnuts. These clouds have been an…