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Hungry Black Hole Snacking on Asteroids? A massive swarm of asteroids may be getting swallowed by the black hole. news.discovery.com
How star forming galaxies starve to death Washington, Jan 12 (ANI): Young and active galaxies evolve into 'red and dead' elliptical galaxies as their central super massive black holes and their jets starve them of their star-forming gas, a new study has revealed. 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
Scientists Get Ready To Image A Black Hole Astronomers are building a virtual telescope as big as our planet that will capture the first ever picture outlining an enormous black hole within our galaxy. The Event Horizon Telescope will be powerful enough to see all the way to the center of the Milky Way, where the super massive black hole lives. Researchers believe by capturing an image of the black hole, it will allow astrophysicists to ... www.redorbit.com
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' … cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
Keeping an Eye on the Universe Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona have released the largest data set ever collected that documents the brightening and dimming of stars and other celestial objects -- 200 million in total. www.spaceref.com
Rare Gamma-Ray Star Twins Discovered by New Method Astronomers have discovered a rare binary star system by following its powerful gamma-ray signal — a find that may remove the element of luck from locating more its kind, a new study reveals. news.yahoo.com
Biggest Map Yet of Universe's Invisible Dark Matter Unveiled AUSTIN, Texas -- The hidden side of the universe is now a bit more illuminated thanks to the largest map yet of dark matter , the strange substance thought to inhabit much of space. [More] www.scientificamerican.com
Patriots Live Blog: Patriots Punch Super Bowl Ticket With 23-20 Victory Against Ravens Final, Patriots 23-20: Wow, what a finish. Joe Flacco drove the Ravens to the 14-yard line, but Billy Cundiff hooked a 32-yard field goal and the Patriots are going to the Super Bowl. Sterling Moore is going to get plenty of pub after this one for breaking up Lee Evans' potential touchdown. Unbelievable. What a wild, wild game. Stay with NESN.com for complete postgame coverage. Fourth quarter, 1 ... www.nesn.com
Research team predicts the next big thing in the world of particle physics: supersymmetry (PhysOrg.com) -- A better understanding of the universe will be the outgrowth of the discovery of the Higgs boson, according to a team of University of Oklahoma researchers. The team predicts the discovery will lead to supersymmetry or SUSY — an extension of the standard model of particle physics. SUSY predicts new matter states or super partners for each matter particle already accounted for ... www.physorg.com
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