black holes

Astronomers to peer into a black hole for first time with new Event Horizon Telescope 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 7, 2017
Ever since first mentioned by Jon Michell in a letter to the Royal Society in 1783, black holes have captured the imagination of scientists, writers, filmmakers and other artists. Perhaps part of the allure is that these enigmatic objects have never actually been “seen”. But this could now be about to change as an international team of astronomers is connecting a number of telescopes on Earth in the hope of making the first ever image of a black hole.

By David Aragorn
Data suggest black holes swallow stellar debris in bursts 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 6, 2017
In the center of a distant galaxy, almost 300 million light years from Earth, scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that is “choking” on a sudden influx of stellar debris.

By David Aragorn
Gravitational wave kicks monster black hole out of galactic core 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 31, 2017
Astronomers have uncovered a supermassive black hole that has been propelled out of the center of a distant galaxy by what could be the awesome power of gravitational waves.

By David Aragorn
Radiation from nearby galaxies helped fuel first monster black holes, says study 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 30, 2017
The massive black hole is able to rapidly grow as intense radiation from a galaxy nearby shuts down star-formation in its host galaxy.

By David Aragorn
Star in closest orbit ever seen around black hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 28, 2017
Astronomers have found evidence of a star that whips around a likely black hole twice an hour. This could be the tightest orbital dance ever seen by a black hole and a companion star in our own Milky Way galaxy.

By David Aragorn
When helium behaves like a black hole 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 27, 2017
A team of scientists has discovered that a law controlling the bizarre behavior of black holes out in space — is also true for cold helium atoms that can be studied in laboratories.

By David Aragorn
Oldest, biggest black holes may have come from enormous stars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 15, 2017
The earliest supermassive black holes may have been big to start with. If so, it would help explain the recent detection of such beasts within a billion years of the big bang.

By David Aragorn
Get Ready for the First Pictures of a Black Hole’s Event Horizon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 2, 2017
It might sound trite to say that the Universe is full of mysteries. But it’s true.

By David Aragorn
Black holes are even stranger than you can imagine 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 18, 2017
Our love of black holes continues to grow as our knowledge of these celestial bodies expands. The latest news is the discovery of a rare “middleweight” black hole, a relative newcomer to the black hole family.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Just Found More Evidence of a New Type of Black Hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2017
Black holes keep getting stranger.

By David Aragorn