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Astronomers have zeroed in on the source of the months-long blast of energy launched by an enormous black hole almost 11 billion years ago swept past Earth in 2011.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 09:56
A US scientist has finally proved an unproven mathematical relation - discussed by Srinivasa Ramanujan with his mentor in one of his last letters - which could help unlock the mysteries of the black hole.
Last Updated: Saturday, December 15, 2012, 15:16
NASA`s Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found that high-speed jets launched from active black holes possess fundamental similarities regardless of mass, age or environment.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 13, 2012, 13:23
Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have come up with new groundbreaking theories that can explain many properties of black holes.
Last Updated: Friday, November 30, 2012, 15:16
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected a jet of X-rays from a supermassive black hole 12.4 billion light-years from Earth.
Last Updated: Thursday, November 29, 2012, 14:26
Astronomers have discovered a ginormous black hole in a galaxy 220 million light years away that could change our understanding of how galaxies evolve.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 13:40
Astrophysicists have cracked the mystery of the binding force behind a cluster of unruly and rapidly swirling stars located in the famous Sword of Orion.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 15:25
Bubbles in space! Astronomers have discovered giant bubbles in the Universe powered by a massive black hole, with a mass six billion times that of the Sun.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 25, 2012, 20:50
Astronomers have been able to identify one of the lowest mass supermassive black holes ever observed in the middle of a galaxy.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 16:27
NASA’s newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the NuSTAR, has caught its first look at the giant black hole parked at the centre of our galaxy.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 12:42
A black hole in the centre of our galaxy is getting ready to devour much of an approaching cloud of dust and gas known as G2.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 13:14
Cambridge researchers, led by an Indian-origin scientist, have discovered a new population of enormous, rapidly growing super-massive black holes ever seen in the early Universe.
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