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A Newtonian system that mimics the baldness of rotating black holes

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The rotating black hole has been described as one of nature's most perfect objects. As described by the Kerr solution of Einstein's gravitational field equations, its spacetime geometry is ...





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Invading black holes explain cosmic flashes

Invading black holes explain cosmic flashes

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (25) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Black holes are invading stars, providing a radical explanation to bright flashes in the universe that are one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy today.


Podcast: Reproducing a Black Hole in the Laboratory, and other Quantum Theories

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a recent study, Professor of Physics and Astronomy Miles Blencowe and his colleagues proposed a new way of creating a reproduction black hole in the laboratory.


Chandra data reveal rapidly whirling black holes

Chandra data reveal rapidly whirling black holes

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 10, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 2

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 ...


Scientists find black hole 'missing link'

Scientists find black hole 'missing link'

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 17, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (56) | comments 11

Scientists at Durham University have found the "missing link" between small and super-massive black holes.


Cygnus X-1: Still a "Star"

Cygnus X-1: Still a 'Star' After All Those Years

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Since its discovery 45 years ago, Cygnus X-1 has been one of the most intensively studied cosmic X-ray sources. About a decade after its discovery, Cygnus X-1 secured a place in the history of astronomy when ...


Chinese scientists create metamaterial black hole

Chinese scientists create metamaterial black hole

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (55) | comments 20

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two physicists in China have used metamaterials to create the first artificial electromagnetic black hole. The scientists, Qiang Cheng and Tie Jun Cui from the Southeast University in Nanjing, ...


An Intriguing, Glowing Galaxy

An Intriguing, Glowing Galaxy

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 1

A supermassive black hole may be responsible for the glowing appearance of galaxy 3C 305, located about 600 million light years away in the constellation Draco. Composite data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...


X-ray and Optical Image of NGC 4649

A new way to weigh giant black holes

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 5

How do you weigh the biggest black holes in the universe? One answer now comes from a completely new and independent technique that astronomers have developed using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.


Radio telescope reveals secrets of massive black hole

Radio telescope reveals secrets of massive black hole

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (27) | comments 7

At the cores of many galaxies, supermassive black holes expel powerful jets of particles at nearly the speed of light. Just how they perform this feat has long been one of the mysteries of astrophysics.


Black Holes: Eternal Prisons No More

Black Holes: Eternal Prisons No More, Stephen Hawking's Lecture

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (50) | comments 98

Celebrated physicist, Stephen Hawking, delivered an inspiring speech to a full house in Bovard Auditorium on March 10. USC College Dean Howard Gillman kicked off the event by introducing Nick Warner, professor ...



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