| Heaviest Stellar Black Hole Discovered In Nearby Galaxy http://www.sciencedaily.com... Astronomy Articles Science Daily - Gemini is an international partnership managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. Note: This story has been adapted from material provided by Chandra X-ray ... |
| Biggest "small" black hole discovered http://news.xinhuanet.com/e... Astronomy Articles Xinhua News Agency - But, all of the stellar mass black holes were expected to be in the range of 10 times the mass of the sun or less, since only the core regions of the star would collapse," said Charles Bailyn, Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale, and a ... |
| Potentially Dangerous Space Rock Lost, and Found http://www.space.com/search... Astronomy Articles Space News - When I was an astronomy student at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, pioneer asteroid hunters Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and her husband Kees van Houten were about to retire, after very fruitful careers. Their legacy was the discovery of over ... |
| Let there be (less) light http://www.philly.com/inqui... Astronomy Articles Philadelphia Inquirer - The remarkable thing about this problem is that so much of it could be eliminated just by technology that exists and by practices that make good sense," says Fred Schaaf, an astronomy author who teaches at Rowan University. Schaaf, like other ... |
| Look at falling stars! http://article.wn.com/link/... Astronomy Articles RIA Novosti - He is one of the leading experts at the Space Astrometric Laboratory of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Astronomy Institute. Meteoroids ionize the terrestrial atmosphere as they enter it to produce radiance. Though they travel parallel to each ... |
| Black Hole Bonanza Discovered http://dsc.discovery.com/ne... Astronomy Articles Discovery News - Now, we can see the iceberg itself," said Mark Dickinson, with the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Ariz. Astronomers discovered that active, supermassive black holes were ubiquitous in the early universe, though they are difficult to ... |
| Astronomer: Dwarf galaxies are 'eerie' http://www.themoneytimes.co... Astronomy Articles The Money Times - Ann Arbor, Mich. -- U.S. astronomers have discovered stars in dwarf spheroidal galaxies behave in a manner suggesting they are dominated by dark matter. University of Michigan astronomy Professor Mario Mateo and post-doctoral researcher Matthew ... |
| SDSU Astronomer Helps Finds Largest Known Black Hole http://www.nbcsandiego.com/... Astronomy Articles NBC San Diego - SAN DIEGO -- A San Diego State University astronomer has helped to find a large black hole in orbit. Astronomy professor Jerome Orosz said that the black hole surrounds a huge companion star. The object is nearly 16 times the size of the sun and is ... |
| Comet makes fiery return to local skies http://www.detnews.com/apps... Astronomy Articles Detroit News - ... floor of the campus' Science Learning and Research Center will monitor Comet Holmes, which in the last two weeks has become visible to the naked eye. "Comet Holmes just burst on the astronomical scene," Donald Bord, professor of physics and astronomy ... |
| To Catch A Galactic Thief http://www.spacedaily.com/r... Astronomy Articles Space Daily - Other authors of this paper include: Phil N. Appleton of Caltech; and David Whysong of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, headquartered in Charlottesville, Va. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Stellar Chemistry ... |