Category Archives: Black Holes

Black Hole Caught Red-Handed in a Stellar Homicide – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Posted on August 2, 2013 by wfoster2011

August 2, 2013 – Black Hole Homicide: Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a space-based observatory, and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on the … Continue reading →

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Space Images: Slideshow – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Posted on June 9, 2013 by wfoster2011

June 9, 2013 – NASA Releases New Slideshow of Stunning Space Images:  Click the link below to start the show. The Master of Disaster Space Images: Slideshow – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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NASA’s NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin

Posted on February 28, 2013 by wfoster2011

February 28, 2013 – NASA’s NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin: Two X-ray space observatories have teamed up to measure definitively, for the first time, the spin rate of a black hole with a mass 2 million times … Continue reading →

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The Biggest Baddest Black Hole Ever Discovered.

Posted on February 26, 2013 by wfoster2011

February 26, 2013 – An illustration of a black hole the size of nearly 10 billion Suns. Inside it, where gravity is so in- tense that not even light can escape, our solar system is shown to scale: Astronomers are … Continue reading →

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Rare Flaring Black Hole With Blazing Jets!

Posted on February 4, 2013 by wfoster2011

February 4, 2013 – Rare Flaring Black Hole With Blazing Jets: Astronomers using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have captured rare data of a flaring black hole, revealing new details about these powerful objects and their blazing jets. Scientists … Continue reading →

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Blazing Black Holes Spotted in Spiral Galaxy.

Posted on January 8, 2013 by wfoster2011

January 8, 2013 – Blazing Black Holes Spotted in Spiral Beauty: This new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, includes data from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. High-energy X-ray data from NuSTAR have … Continue reading →

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Megacatastrophia – Nine Weird Ways the World Could End.

Posted on December 8, 2012 by wfoster2011

December 8, 2012 – Megacatastrophies – Nine Weird Ways the World Could End: For many Canadians, Americans and Europeans, the threat of global warming might not seem that big a deal. Sorry about the polar bears, of course, but shorter … Continue reading →

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