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Asteroids cause black hole's X-ray hiccups, scientists say
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy may be swallowing large asteroids and comets almost daily, generating bursts of X-ray light visible to NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, according to an international team of astronomers.
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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.
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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 [...]
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New Telescope to Take First-Ever Black Hole Photo
A group of astronomers are meeting this week to plan out an ambitious and unprecedented project — capturing the first-ever image of a black hole.
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Scientists to catch a black hole
Astronomers are setting up a virtual telescope as wide as our planet to capture the first picture outlining our galaxy's monstrous black hole. "Everybody's super-excited," one of the leaders of the effort, astrophysicist Dimitrios Psaltis of the University of Arizona' …
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Launch campaign begins for NASA's black hole hunter
After a cross-country road trip from Orbital Sciences Corp. in Virginia last week, technicians have unpacked NASA's NuSTAR X-ray telescope at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and begun methodically checking the craft for the final time before its launch date in mid-March.
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Early supermassive black holes could grow it alone
Simulation shows cold gas boosts growth
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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.
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Future Studies Will Extend Census of Middleweight Black Holes
Editor's note: In her article, " Goldilocks Black Holes ," Jenny E. Greene discusses the search for black holes with masses ranging from roughly 1,000 suns to a million suns--middleweights on the cosmic scale. These intermediate-mass holes may provide clues about the origins of galaxies and the supermassive black holes (millions to billions of suns in mass) found at galaxy centers. Astronomers ...
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Black Hole Ejects Great Balls of Fire
Astronomers have found a black hole that behaves like one of those batting cages that automatically spits baseballs.
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