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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A Russian cosmologist says that life could very well survive inside black holes, simply because these objects have the ability to sustain stable orbits within. Certain types of black holes have been found to have such orbits well past their event horizons, which was a remarkable discovery in itself. According to the ... |
11 April 2011
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Scientists say that the elusive form of radiation that famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking predicted back in 1974, and which bears his name, may have just been discovered. For decades, astrophysicists have been looking for signs that the Hawking radiation is a real, measurable quantity, but thus far their eff... |
27 September 2010
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The material surrounding and circling the black hole of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A*, emits flares of radiation. Two Chilean telescopes have managed to spot the event simultaneously for the first time. This allows for a better understanding of the phenomena going on in that place, otherwise unobservable due t... |
19 November 2008
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Black holes are definitely the most fascinating aspect in the vastness of space, even if we don't know an awful lot about them. Actually, we don't even know whether they really exist or not yet, but theory says they should exist; otherwise, some things that are known to happen would be even weirder. But out... |
1 November 2008
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Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the whole universe. Except a handful of properties, almost nothing is known about what lies beyond their event horizon, whether it's a wormhole, a ultra-dense singularity or some other structure we have no knowledge about. And here is the worst part of the p... |
14 February 2008
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Surely an entry must have an exit; there is no doubt about that. Black holes swallow huge amounts of matter as they travel through space, but where does all that material go? One thing is for certain, it can't stay inside it for a indefinite amount of time, otherwise we probably wouldn't be here right now.... |
5 January 2008
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