Black Holes

Black Hole Bonanza! Dozens (Potentially) Found In Andromeda As Another Study Probes X-Rays

June 17, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter More than two DOZEN potential black holes have been found in the nearest galaxy to our own. As if that find wasn’t enough, another research group is teaching us why extremely high-energy X-rays are present in black holes. Remove this ad

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Space Observatories Watch a Black Hole Go Dormant

June 11, 2013

The Chandra X-ray Observatory has been keeping an eye on a black hole actively munching away on gas at the middle of the nearby Sculptor galaxy. Now, with the added eyes of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), which sees higher-energy X-ray light, the observatories have found the black hole has fallen asleep, even amid [...]

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Black Hole Secrets: Revealing The S-Star

May 30, 2013

Deep in the heart of the Milky Way resides a black hole. However, that is not the mysterious object which scientists Fabio Antonini, of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, and David Merritt, of the Rochester Institute of Technology, have been endeavoring to explain. The objects of their attention are the orbits of massive young [...]

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Black Holes Can Get Really Big, And We Have No Idea Why

May 30, 2013

Right now, as you read this article, it’s quite possible that the ultra-huge black hole at the center of our galaxy is feasting on asteroids or supercooked gas. We’ve seen these supermassive black holes in other spots in the universe, too: merging together, for example. They’re huge heavyweights, typically ranging between hundreds of thousands to billions [...]

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Milky Way’s Black Hole Munches On Supercooked Gas

May 7, 2013

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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