Last Updated: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 10:58
Scientists have developed a method to measure the rate of the universe`s expansion using certain types of active black holes that lie at the center of many galaxies.
Last Updated: Sunday, March 31, 2013, 16:42
As many as 2000 black holes kicked away from their homes are now living on the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, according to a new study.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 17, 2013, 17:29
Astronomers have discovered that super-massive black holes - located at the centres of galaxies - are growing faster than previously thought.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 19:00
Some of the biggest black holes in the universe may actually be even bigger than previously thought, a study that uses data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has suggested.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 15:46
Bright X-ray flares in nearby galaxies, once assumed to indicate the presence of black holes, can in fact be produced by white dwarfs, a new research has revealed.
Last Updated: Friday, October 26, 2012, 16:07
Astronomers have obtained a remarkable new view of a whopper of an elliptical galaxy, with a core bigger than any seen before, thanks to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 14:05
Scientists at the University of Arizona and in California have completed the most challenging large astronomical mirror ever made.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 30, 2012, 14:34
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has uncovered millions of new supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies.
Last Updated: Monday, July 30, 2012, 17:40
A possible source of ultra high-energy cosmic rays – gamma-ray bursts, has received a new lease of life in a new study.
Last Updated: Saturday, July 21, 2012, 12:28
Keio University researchers have found intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) candidates at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 12:06
Quasars are the brilliant beacons of light that are powered by black holes feasting on captured material, and in the process, heating some of the matter to millions of degrees.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 21:19
Astronomers have for the past many years thought that a supermassive black hole and the bulge of stars at the center of its host galaxy grow at the same rate.
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