News tagged with hole masses
Extreme X-ray source supports new class of black hole
A group of international astronomers in the UK, France and the USA, led by the University of Leicester, have found proof to confirm the distance and brightness of the most extreme ultra-luminous X-ray source, ...
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Studying how black holes grow
Black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the universe. They are the final evolutionary stage of giant stars much larger than the sun. When these stars explode, their cores collapse down to the size ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Suzaku catches retreat of a black hole's disk
(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies of one of the galaxy's most active black-hole binaries reveal a dramatic change that will help scientists better understand how these systems expel fast-moving particle jets.
Dec 10, 2009 |
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First black holes may have incubated in giant, starlike cocoons
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first large black holes in the universe likely formed and grew deep inside gigantic, starlike cocoons that smothered their powerful x-ray radiation and prevented surrounding gases from ...
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Swift, XMM-Newton satellites tune into a middleweight black hole
(PhysOrg.com) -- While astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers ...
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Computer Finds Massive Black Hole in Nearby Galaxy
Astronomers Karl Gebhardt of The University of Texas at Austin and Jens Thomas of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have used new computer modeling techniques to discover that the black ...
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Did 'Dark Gulping' Generate Black Holes in Early Universe?
(PhysOrg.com) -- A process called ‘dark gulping’ may solve the mystery of the how supermassive black holes were able to form when the Universe was less than a billion years old.
Apr 23, 2009 |
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