Midtown Blogger/Manhattan Valley Follies: Thinking About Black Holes- Update from Science Daily

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June 8, 2015

Merging Galaxies Break Radio Silence

Shock Collision Inside Black Hole Jet

Spacetime Is Built by Quantum Entanglement

Supernovas Help 'Clean' Galaxies

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Dynamics of Spinning Black Holes: Flip-Flopping Black Holes Spin to the End of the Dance

Apr. 9, 2015 — Researchers simulated the merger of binary black holes and noticed that one black hole completely changes the orientation of ... read more

Examining Earth's DNA Supports New Origin Theory For Moon

Supermassive Blackhole Detector Ready for Business

Mars One Boots Astrophysicist As Skepticism Builds

Hubble Sees Rare 'Einstein Cross' Image Of Distant Supernova

Black Holes Don’t Erase Information, Scientists Say

Apr. 2, 2015 — Shred a document, and you can piece it back together. But send information into a black hole, and it's lost forever. A new study finds that -- contrary to what some physicists have argued for ... read more

Hubble Finds Phantom Objects Near Dead Quasars

Apr. 2, 2015 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a set of wispy, goblin-green objects that are the ephemeral ghosts of quasars that flickered to life and then faded. The eight unusual looped ... read more

Best View Yet of Dusty Cloud Passing Galactic Center Black Hole

Mar. 26, 2015 — The best observations so far of the dusty gas cloud G2 confirm that it made its closest approach to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way in May 2014 and has survived the ... read more

Supermassive Black Hole Clears Star-Making Gas from Galaxy's Core

Mar. 25, 2015 — A new study provides the first observational evidence that a supermassive black hole at the center of a large galaxy can power huge, wide-angled outpourings of material from deep inside the ... read more

Galactic 'Rain' Explains Why Some Galaxies Are Better at Creating Stars

Mar. 4, 2015 — Some of the galaxies in our universe are veritable star nurseries. For example, our own Milky Way produces, on average, at least one new star every year. Others went barren years ago, now producing ... read more

New Insight Found in Black Hole Collisions

Feb. 26, 2015 — New research by an astrophysicist provides revelations about the most energetic event in the universe -- the merging of two spinning, orbiting black holes into a much larger black ... read more

Pockets of Calm Protect Molecules Around a Supermassive Black Hole

Feb. 26, 2015 — Researchers have discovered regions where certain organic molecules somehow endure the intense radiation near the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 1068, also known to amateur ... read more

Monster Black Hole Discovered at Cosmic Dawn

Feb. 25, 2015 — The discovery of the brightest quasar in the early universe, powered by the most massive black hole yet known at that time presents a puzzle to researchers: How could something so massive and ... read more

Giving Shape to Black Holes' Intense Winds

Feb. 19, 2015 — By looking at the speed of ambient gas spewing out from a well-known quasar, astronomers are gaining insight into how black holes and their host galaxies might have evolved at the same ... read more

Dark Matter Guides Growth of Supermassive Black Holes

Feb. 18, 2015 — Every massive galaxy has a black hole at its center, and the heftier the galaxy, the bigger its black hole. But why are the two related? After all, the black hole is millions of times smaller and ... read more

Interstellar Technology Throws Light on Spinning Black Holes

Feb. 13, 2015 — The team responsible for the Oscar-nominated visual effects at the center of Christopher Nolan's epic 'Interstellar' have turned science fiction into science fact by providing new ... read more

Unexpected 'Storm' at Galaxy's Core: Supermassive Black Hole Blasting Gas, Transforming Galaxy

Feb. 11, 2015 — Astronomers found surprisingly energetic activity in what they otherwise considered a "boring" galaxy, and their discovery provides important insight on how supermassive black holes can ... read more

New Instrument to Study the Extreme Universe -- The X-Ray Polarimeter X-Calibur

Jan. 28, 2015 — X-ray polarimetry promises to give qualitatively new information about high-energy astrophysical sources, such as black hole systems, the bright and active centers of galaxies, compact neutron stars, ... read more

Bubbles from the Galactic Center: A Key to Understanding Dark Matter and Our Galaxy's Past?

Jan. 27, 2015 — The astrophysicists who discovered two enormous radiation bubbles in the center of our galaxy discuss what they may tell us about the Milky Way and how they could help in the search for dark ... read more

Yes, Black Holes Exist in Gravitational Theories With Unbounded Speeds of Propagation

Jan. 23, 2015 — Gravitational theories with broken Lorentz invariance have attracted a great deal of interest as they provide a test-bed of LI and offer a mechanism to improve their ultraviolet behavior, so that the ... read more

Black Hole on a Diet Creates a 'Changing Look' Quasar

Jan. 22, 2015 — Astronomers have identified the first 'changing look' quasar, a gleaming object in deep space that appears to have its own dimmer switch. The discovery may offer a glimpse into the life ... read more

Extremely Short, Sharp Flash of Radio Waves from Unknown Source in the Universe, Caught as It Was Happening

Jan. 19, 2015 — A strange phenomenon has been observed by astronomers right as it was happening -- a 'fast radio burst'. The eruption is described as an extremely short, sharp flash of radio waves from an ... read more

Galactic 'Hailstorm' in the Early Universe

Jan. 16, 2015 — Astronomers have been able to peer back to the young Universe to determine how quasars -- powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of a billion suns -- form and shape the evolution of ... read more

Unusual Light Signal Yields Clues About Elusive Black Hole Merger

Jan. 8, 2015 — Scientists have found what appear to be two supermassive black holes in the final stages of a merger, a rare event never seen before. The discovery could help shed light on a long-standing conundrum ... read more

Planet-Hunting Satellite Observes Supermassive Black Hole

Jan. 6, 2015 — Astrophysicists combined ground observations with those from NASA's planet-hunting satellite. The study looked at a black hole more than 100 million light years away. They estimate KA 1858 to ... read more

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Thinking About Black Holes- Update from Science Daily

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