Black Holes
The Violent Variations of Black Holes
[/caption] What is the environment around a black hole really like? Astronomers are getting a better idea by observing the…
Podcast: Black Hole Surfaces, Magnetic Field Strengths, and the Speed of Gravitons
[/caption] As you know, we wanted to answer listener questions regularly, but we found it was taking away from the…
Super-massive and Small Black Holes Both Suck
[/caption] Sorry, couldn't resist that title. Astronomers studying black holes are able to "see" them due to the fact that…
Black Holes Can Only Get So Big
[/caption] Black holes are thought to exist throughout the universe, with the largest and most massive found at the centers…
Astronomers Link Telescopes to Zoom In On Milky Way’s Black Hole
[/caption] An international team of astronomers has obtained the closest views ever of what is believed to be a super-massive…
Is This Black Hole Available in Size Medium?
[/caption] Black holes are sometimes huge – supermassive as they are called, billions of times the mass of our sun.…
New “Sunglasses” Help Astronomers See Light Near Black Holes
[/caption] Although we can't actually see a black hole, we can see the black hole's effect on nearby matter. But…
How do you Weigh a Supermassive Black Hole? Take its Temperature
[/caption] Working out the mass of huge black holes, like the ones hiding in the centre of galactic nuclei, is…
Can Light be “Squeezed” to Improve Sensitivity of Gravitational Wave Detectors?
The search is on to detect the first evidence of gravitational waves travelling around the cosmos. How can we do…
Double Your Science: Starburst Galaxies Found with Active Quasars
Astronomers now know that essentially every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. When the black hole is…