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Intermediate mass black holes
Black holes are controversial. (Just browse reader comments from partisans of various sorts of "alternative" astrophysical theories – which can be found at the end of many articles dealing with black holes that allow commenting by the general p...
Galactic black holes may be more massive than thought
Who would have imagined that a black hole could be more massive than a thought? (Of course, the headline merely exemplifies the clichéd thinking habits of the unfortunate people who have to write headlines.)But anyhow, it's an interesting stor...
Black Hole Outflows From Centaurus A
Black Hole Outflows From Centaurus AThis image of Centaurus A shows a spectacular new view of a supermassive black hole's power. Jets and lobes powered by the central black hole in this nearby galaxy are shown by submillimeter data (colored orange) ...
Which came first - the galaxy or the black hole?
This news isn't exactly fresh, having been announced several weeks ago, and it's been reported in many places. However, it's quite important (if correct), because it suggests that the supermassive black holes that seem to exist at the centers of most...
Mystery deepens over origin of biggest black holes
Mysteries are popular, so here's a good one, about another popular subject, black holes.Mystery deepens over origin of biggest black holes (5/19/08)Where did the universe's biggest black holes come from? One idea suggests the behemoths began as small...
GLAST and gamma-ray astronomy
According to the present schedule, the GLAST gamma-ray telescope mission will be launched next week, on June 5, around noon EDT. If you're reading this before then, you can expect to find quite a bit of news coverage around that date. It's actually k...
Black holes exist
It may come as a surprise to lay readers to learn that even as recently as 10 years ago there were prominent physicists who still doubted the existence of black holes.For example, there's Sir John Maddox, a trained chemist and physicist who was edito...
Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar Sphere
Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar SphereMillions of clustered stars glisten like an iridescent opal in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.Called Omega Centauri, this sparkling orb of stars is like a miniature galaxy. It is the biggest and bri...
