Black Holes
A New Way to Visualize Warped Space and Time
[/caption] Trying to understand the warping of space and time is something like visualizing a scene from Alice in Wonderland…
Famous Binary Cygnus-X1 Displays First-Ever Polarized Emissions
[/caption] Using the IBIS telescope onboard the European Space Agency’s INTEGRAL satellite, researchers have reported the first measurements of polarization…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Black Hole Entropy
[/caption] An easy way to think about the entropy of black holes is to consider that entropy represents the loss…
Halt, Black Hole! Gemini Captures Explosions That Deprive Black Holes of Mass
[/caption] Astronomers have long suspected that something must stymie actively growing black holes, because most galaxies in the local universe…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Black Holes: The Early Years
[/caption] There's a growing view that black holes in the early universe may have been the seeds around which most…
Message in a Wobble: Black Holes Send Memos in Light
[/caption] Imagine a spinning black hole so colossal and so powerful that it kicks photons, the basic units of light,…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 213: Supermassive Black Holes
It’s now believed that there’s a supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of every galaxy in the Universe. These…
Black Holes and Dark Matter: Tag! You’re It…
[/caption] We only know they're there because we can feel them in the dark... Feel their gravity, that is. Like…
Hide And Go Seek…. Supermassive Black Hole Peeks From Behind The Skirt Of A Dwarf Galaxy
[/caption] It's a bird... It's a plane... It's a million times more massive than our Sun! Just how big do…
Galactic Mergers Fail to Feed Black Holes
[/caption] The large black holes that reside at the center of galaxies can be hungry beasts. As dust and gas…