Jun 16 2011
Star SOS Detected From Space
Astronomers pick up a mayday call from a star being ripped apart by a black hole 3.8 billion light-years from Earth.
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Jun 16 2011
Hungry Black Holes Lurk at Edge of the Universe
13 billion light-years away, at the very edge of our observable universe, supermassive black holes lurk inside their galactic hosts, feeding.
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May 19 2011
Black Hole Driven Starships Might Ply the Galaxy
A super-civilization might build black holes for numerous mega-engineering projects. Interstellar travel and colonization would be a natural spinoff.
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Apr 30 2011
Super-Civilizations Might Live Off Black Holes
It's time to think far outside of the box regarding our preconceptions of how to find extraterrestrial civilizations.
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Apr 21 2011
Listening to the Symphony of the Stars with SKA
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will be the size of a continent and potentially turn our view of the Universe upside down.
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Apr 13 2011
Could Life Survive Inside a Black Hole?
Stable planetary orbits are theorized to exist inside black hole event horizons, sufficiently advanced lifeforms may live there too.
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Apr 07 2011
Mysterious Cosmic Blast a Hungry Black Hole?
Bright blasts of radiation from the center of a galaxy 3.8 billion light-years from Earth are puzzling astronomers.
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Jan 12 2011
Obese Black Hole Lurks in Our Backyard
Weighing in at the equivalent of 6.6 billion of our suns, this behemoth is located in a galaxy that neighbors our own.
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Jan 11 2011
Supersized Black Hole Seen in Small Galaxy
A small nearby dwarf galaxy is found to contain a surprisingly huge black hole, possibly solving a longstanding mystery.
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Dec 28 2010
Biggest Black Holes Are Mostly Quiet
Active black holes were at least 100 times more common 10 billion years ago. So what happened to these once ravenous monsters?
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