Black Holes
Weekly Space Hangout – May 3, 2012
Here's the May 3, 2012 edition of the Weekly Space Hangout, where we were joined by our usual cast of…
Black Holes are More Like Venus Fly Traps than Vacuum Cleaners
[/caption] I’m going to try and say this before the Bad Astronomer does: Holy Haleakala! A team of astronomers using…
Chandra Witnesses Big Blast from an Old Black Hole
[/caption] Astronomers keeping an eye out for a supernova explosion in the nearby galaxy M83 instead witnessed a prodigious blast…
Can “Warp Speed” Planets Zoom Through Interstellar Space?
[/caption]Nearly ten years ago, astronomers were stunned to discover a star that had been apparently flung from its own system…
To The Extreme… NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope Gathers In High Energy
[/caption] It scans the entire visible sky every three hours. Its job is to gather light - but not just…
NASA’s Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer Retires
[/caption] For more than 16 years, 2,200 papers in refereed journals, 92 doctoral theses, and more than 1,000 rapid notifications…
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 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…
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…
Missing Black Holes
[/caption] As astronomers began working out how stars die, they expected that the mass of remnants, whether white dwarfs, neutron…