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 08 2011
Kepler May Uncover Numerous Ring Worlds
Planetary rings made of rock or silicates might be common in the Galaxy.
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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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Mar 18 2011
A Throbbing Black Hole in the ‘Eye of Sauron’
In the center of galaxy NGC 4151, a black hole lurks.
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Feb 16 2011
Galaxy Smash Leaves Black Hole Ring
A galaxy collision is an impressive creation event, that is, the creation of stars and, in this case, a ring of black holes.
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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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Nov 15 2010
Black Hole Baby Spotted Being Born
For the first time ever, a black hole has been seen being born out of a supernova of a star perhaps 20 times the mass of our sun.
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Aug 21 2010
Raucous Active Galaxy Destroys Own Environment
The powerful radio source in the center of M87 is a supermassive black hole, ripping away at the heart of the galaxy.
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Aug 10 2010
Colliding Galaxies Erupt with Violent Beauty
We've seen their dazzling beauty, but what exactly is going on in this technicolor picture of the Antennae Galaxies?
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Aug 09 2010
Living in a Technicolor Universe
An urban legend has developed over the years that the colors in modern astronomical photos are made up in a paint-by-numbers game by publicity-hungry astronomers.
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