Supermassive black hole spins super-fast
Imagine a sphere more than 2 million miles across spinning so fast that its surface is traveling at nearly the…
Hundreds of rogue stars found outside galaxy
Vanderbilt University astronomers say they have identified more than 600 stars that have been violently flung out of the Milky…
Milky Way’s black hole in asteroid feeding frenzy
The X-ray flares that are observed on a daily basis from the giant black hole at the center of the…
The Great Escape
A mechanism for how information might escape from a black hole has been proposed by a team of physicists at…
New Class Of Galactic Nuclei Identified
Reporting in Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers using NASA’s Swift satellite and the Japanese Suzaku X-ray observatory say they has discovered…
Black Hole The Ultimate Sub-Woofer
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected a cacophony of ultra-deep sound resonating through galaxy M87 thanks to a black hole…
Orphan Black Hole Puzzles Astronomers
Quasars are the brightest objects in the Universe, spewing out enormous amounts of energy making them visible across vast distances.…