Milky Way's antimatter linked to exotic black holes Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Legions of tiny black holes created during the big bang may lurk at the centre of the galaxy, creating a prodigious antimatter factory, a new study suggests. The work could explain where the Milky Way's antimatter comes from – one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics.
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Black Holes May Fill the Universe with Seeds of Life Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
New research shows that black holes are not the ultimate destroyers that are often portrayed in popular culture. Instead, warm gas escaping from the clutches of enormous black holes could be one source of the chemical elements that make life possible.
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Astronomers Devise New Way to Weigh Black Holes Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Astronomers can't see black holes. And they definitely can't go out and grab a piece of one to measure its mass.
So how do they weigh them?
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Some Black Holes May Not Be Black, But Rather 'Naked Singularities' Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Researchers from Duke University and the University of Cambridge think there is a way to determine whether some black holes are not actually black. Finding such an unmasked form of what physicists term a singularity "would shock the foundation of general relativity."
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Biggest black holes may grow inside 'quasistars' Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
The biggest black holes in the universe might have grown within the bellies of giant stars, a new study suggests. If these hole-bearing "quasistars" exist, then they might be bright enough to see from across the universe.
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Black Holes May Fill the Universe with Seeds of Life Posted: 1 year ago by dork
New research shows that black holes are not the ultimate destroyers that are often portrayed in popular culture. Instead, warm gas escaping from the clutches of enormous black holes could be one source of the chemical elements that make life possible.
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Supermassive black holes about to get much brighter! Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Spitzer Space Telescopes show that the vicinities around the black holes could be backing up with excess matter - the black holes just can’t consume it fast enough to clear the space. When this happens, the matter heats up, and releases a tremendous amount of energy.
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Study confirms supermassive black holes produce powerful galaxy-shaping winds Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Supermassive black holes can produce powerful winds that shape a galaxy and determine their own growth. The RIT team has, for the first time, observed the vertical launch of rotating winds from glowing disks of gas, known as accretion disks, surrounding supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies.
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Astronomers puzzled by cosmic black hole Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
Astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen "dark matter." While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all.
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Black Google Portal Posted: 2 years ago by plimytheelder
This Black Google Portal is easier on your eyes and saves energy. All search results are displayed on google.com with a black background and light text.
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Integral discovers the galaxy’s antimatter cloud is lopsided Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
The shape of the mysterious cloud of antimatter in the central regions of the Milky Way has been revealed by ESA’s orbiting gamma-ray observatory Integral. The unexpectedly lopsided shape is a new clue to the origin of the antimatter.
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Stephen Hawking, English Astrophysicist and Mathematician Posted: 1 year ago by pepersconc
Professor Hawking is renowned for his brilliant work in Quantum Gravity and constant study of Black Holes. One of his theories demonstrates that black holes emit radiation, later named as Hawking radiation.
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New virtual telescope zooms in on Milky Way's super-massive black hole Posted: 1 month ago by AutumnLotus
An international team, led by astronomers at the MIT Haystack Observatory, has obtained the closest views ever of what is believed to be a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Good news! Black hole won't destroy Earth Posted: 2 years ago by afeldman
Scientists could generate a black hole as often as every second when the world's most powerful particle accelerator comes online in 2007.
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Chandra data reveal rapidly whirling black holes Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
A new study using results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provides one of the best pieces of evidence yet that many supermassive black holes are spinning extremely rapidly. The whirling of these giant black holes drives powerful jets that pump huge amounts of energy into their environment and affects galaxy growth.
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The Black Keys Posted: 2 years ago by donteatpoop
The Black Keys are a blues band out of Akron, OH who have a distinctly gritty sound that is refreshing in todays over-produced industry.
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Source of mysterious antimatter found Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Antimatter, which annihilates matter upon contact, seems to be rare in the universe. Still, for decades, scientists had clues that a vast cloud of antimatter lurked in space, but they did not know where it came from. The mysterious source of this antimatter has now been discovered -- stars getting ripped apart by neutron stars and black holes.
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Black is the new...Black? Posted: 1 year ago by muppet
Right now, the colour black, or “Kuro” in Japanese, is surprisingly enjoying widespread popularity in Japan. A trend so strong that we could even find an oh-so-hip black toilet paper.
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No Satanic Rituals with black cats for you this Halloween... Posted: 2 years ago by Caremel
A Humane Society in Idaho has banned adoptions of black cats, fearing they might be mistreated, or worse, on Halloween.
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Milky Seas From Space Posted: 6 months ago by 2manyusernames
Milky seas are unusual phenomena which have been noticed by mariners for centuries, but which remain unexplained by scientists. These events are when the surface of the ocean, often from horizon to horizon, glows with a continuous uniform milky light.
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Milky Way's black hole probed closer than ever before Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
We are close to seeing the true blackness of a black hole. Astronomers have detected radio emission coming from within 30 million kilometres of the dark object, thought to be a colossal black hole, that lies at the centre of the galaxy. Includes video.
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