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Black Holes

Milky Way’s Black Hole Munches On Supercooked Gas

May 7, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter It’s a simple menu, but smoking hot. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is sucking in ultra-hot molecular gas, as seen through the eyes of the Herschel space telescope. Remove this ad

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Star’s Dying Gasp May Signal Black Hole’s Birth

May 5, 2013

A distinctive flash of light emanating from a dying star may make it possible for astronomers to watch a black hole being born, according to new research. This burst of light, which might last three to 10 days, could be visible in optical light and also in infrared, which shows the heat signature of cosmic [...]

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Astronomers Watch as a Black Hole Eats a Rogue Planet

April 2, 2013

In Star Wars, the Millennium Falcon narrowly escaped being devoured by an exogorth (space slug) slumbering inside an asteroid crater. An unsuspecting rogue giant planet wasn’t as lucky. Astronomers using the Integral space observatory were able to watch as the planet was eaten by a black hole that had been inactive for decades. It woke [...]

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Hubble Uncovers Hidden Mysteries in Messier 77

March 28, 2013

Discovered on October 29, 1780 by Pierre Mechain, this active Seyfert galaxy is magnificent to behold in amateur equipment and even more so in NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope photographs. Located in the constellation of Cetus and positioned about 45 million light years away, this spiral galaxy has a claim to fame not only for being [...]

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Super-fast Duo: Black Hole and Star Break Speed Records

March 20, 2013

A group of telescopes and astronomers have worked together to help identify a star and a black hole that orbit each other at the dizzying rate of once every 2.4 hours, smashing the previous record by nearly an hour. Remove this ad

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