Black Holes
Dual Black Holes Spinning in a Cosmic Dance – Complete with Disco Ball
Caption: An image of the galaxy COSMOS J100043.15+020637.2 taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope.…
Stellar Destruction Could Be from Intermediate Black Hole
NGC 1399, an elliptical galaxy about 65 million light years from Earth. Credit: NASA, Chandra A dense stellar remnant has…
The Shrinking Doughnut Around a Black Hole
[/caption] Homer Simpson would be sad: recent observations of the binary system of a black hole and its companion star…
Quasar Caught Building Future Home Galaxy
The birth of galaxies is quite a complicated affair, and little is known about whether the supermassive black holes at…
First Black Holes May Have Formed in “Cocoons”
Very likely, the last image that comes to mind when thinking of black holes is that they need to be…
Finding the Mama Bear of Black Holes
While astronomers have studied both big and little black holes for decades, evidence for those middle-sized black holes has been…
Could a Black Hole Fit in Your Computer or In Your Pocket?
[/caption] Some of the most frequently asked questions we get here at Universe Today and Astronomy Cast deal with black…
What is an Event Horizon?
The event horizon of a black hole is the boundary ('horizon') between its 'outside' and its 'inside'; those outside cannot…
Two Black Holes Play a Little One on One
[/caption] If black holes could communicate, there would likely be a lotta in your face trash talkin' going on between…
Hawking Radiation
[/caption] When humans starve, they grow thin and eventually die; when a black hole starves, it too grows thin and…