|
A Black Hole Brings New Stars To Life
Astrophysicists have identified a black hole that's causing new stars to form. (Image Credit: Mark Crockett)
www.forbes.com
Do Black Holes Help Stars Form?
The center of just about every galaxy is thought to host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around them.
www.spaceref.com
How black holes fire gas jets into space
Sydney, Jan 12 (IANS) Scientists are a step closer to figuring out how black holes can fire superfast gas bullets into space, by determining the precise moment when they form, a study reveals.
in.news.yahoo.com
Black Hole Fires Gas 'Bullets' Into Space
Astronomers have captured the moment when a black hole launched super-fast "bullets" of gas into space at one-quarter the speed of light, a new study reports.
news.yahoo.com
Picture of the Day: A Galaxy Like Our Own
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken this image of the galaxy NGC 1073, a "barred spiral" galaxy much like our own Milky Way. According to the European Space Agency, which works with NASA ...
finance.yahoo.com
Catching a Gravity Wave: Canceled Laser Space Antenna May Still Fly
Ripples in the fabric of spacetime regularly zip across the universe from titanic cosmic events, such as the mergers of supermassive black holes millions to billions of times the mass of the sun. These so-called gravitational waves ought to be ubiquitous but faint, and no experiment has yet registered the disturbance caused by a passing wave. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna was supposed ...
www.scientificamerican.com
Top 100 Stories of 2011: #14: Astronomers Watch Black Hole Devour Star | DISCOVER Magazine
Black holes have a reputation for destruction but it was only in 2011 that scientists caught one in the act, watching it devour an errant star. In March NASA’s Swift satellite detected a gamma-ray burst, an eruption of high-energy radiation that usually indicates a stellar explosion. But whereas most bursts last only seconds, this one kept on going. Josh Bloom, an astronomer at the University of ...
discovermagazine.com
Emerging Supermassive Black Holes Choke Star Formation
Located on the Chajnantor plateau in the foothills of the Chilean Andes, ESO’s APEX telescope has been busy looking into deep, deep space. Recently a group of astronomers released their findings regarding massive galaxies in connection with extreme times of star formation in the early Universe. What they found was a sharp cut-off point in [...]
www.universetoday.com
Black Holes May Turboboost Super-Civilizations
A consortium of super civilizations might pool resources to build a chain of power stations encircling the supermassive black hole at the core of our galaxy.
news.discovery.com
New telescope array will capture the first-ever photograph of a black hole
A new project will team up telescopes from Hawaii and the South Pole to capture the first-ever images of Einstein's 'black holes' - objects whose gravity is so huge they suck in light.
www.dailymail.co.uk
|
