By utilizing one of the most advanced interferometry instruments in the world, named AMBER, a team of astronomers was recently able to observe the active accretion phase of a supermassive black hole.
What this means is that they were able to see the dark behemoth as it was gorging itself on matter accumulated in its... |
17 May 2012
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Washington University in St. Louis (WUSL) astronomers propose a new model to explain the formation of the solar system. At this point, most of the international scientific community accepts that the planets developed from a protoplanetary disk.
This feature, formed even before the Sun finished maturing, held tiny ga... |
2 March 2012
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Several spacecraft belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA) were recently involved in an international effort to scrutinize the outskirts of a black hole as close to the event horizon as possible. The vessels discovered that the dark behemoth shoots out bullet-shaped clouds of hydrogen gas.
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29 September 2011
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In a set of investigations that could have the ability to make astronomers better understand how impressive particle jets are spewed from inside black holes, scientists have observed for the first time the hypothesized evaporation effects inside the accretion disk around such a behemoth. The observations were conduct... |
11 December 2009
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There seems to be a constant rush as of late to demonstrate that what we used to know and treat as a given is wrong. Evolving technology and the increased amount of accurate scientific data provide more insight on many of these aspects that were not thoroughly investigated so far. As such, it appears that the prevale... |
15 December 2008
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Light echoes are generated when interstellar or intergalactic gas is ionized by electromagnetic emissions originating several light years away, and responds accordingly by releasing the surplus energy by emitting light. By observing such light echoes, astronomers can witness events that occurred several hundred of th... |
19 April 2008
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Quasars are basically black holes surrounded by large accretion disks of matter spinning around them. As matter is being drawn to the central black hole, it heats up and starts emitting high amounts of radiation, while powerful magnetic fields eject part of the material back into the surrounding space before crossing... |
7 April 2008
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Behemoths up to a billion times the mass of our Sun lie in our universe, swallowing up matter to hide it forever from the eyes of any outside observers. Not even light can escape their massive gravitational pull, that's why they are called black holes; they do not emit any form of electromagnetic radiation, thus... |
4 March 2008
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Though the respective area of sky - where the new X-ray source was discovered - had been surveyed back in 2003, data showed that it hadn't been there at the respective moment. In March of last year, the Chandra X-ray Space Telescope, scanning the general direction of the galaxy Centaurus A located about 14 billi... |
11 January 2008
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There appears to be a link between the way in which galaxies form and take their shape and the supermassive black holes at their center. Theres a correlation between the speed of dispersion of the spheroidal cloud of original gas, and the mass of the massive black hole. Scientists detected enormous 'tornadoes&#... |
3 November 2007
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