Black Holes
Black Holes Spin Outta’ Control
[/caption] "Down in a hole and they've put all the stones in their place. I've eaten the sun so my…
Best-Ever Radio Image of Black Hole Jets
[/caption] A new image taken by an array of radio telescopes is the best resolution view ever of particle jets…
A New Way to Visualize Warped Space and Time
[/caption] Trying to understand the warping of space and time is something like visualizing a scene from Alice in Wonderland…
Famous Binary Cygnus-X1 Displays First-Ever Polarized Emissions
[/caption] Using the IBIS telescope onboard the European Space Agency’s INTEGRAL satellite, researchers have reported the first measurements of polarization…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Black Hole Entropy
[/caption] An easy way to think about the entropy of black holes is to consider that entropy represents the loss…
Halt, Black Hole! Gemini Captures Explosions That Deprive Black Holes of Mass
[/caption] Astronomers have long suspected that something must stymie actively growing black holes, because most galaxies in the local universe…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Black Holes: The Early Years
[/caption] There's a growing view that black holes in the early universe may have been the seeds around which most…
Message in a Wobble: Black Holes Send Memos in Light
[/caption] Imagine a spinning black hole so colossal and so powerful that it kicks photons, the basic units of light,…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 213: Supermassive Black Holes
It’s now believed that there’s a supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of every galaxy in the Universe. These…
Black Holes and Dark Matter: Tag! You’re It…
[/caption] We only know they're there because we can feel them in the dark... Feel their gravity, that is. Like…