Black Hole

Far-Off Galaxies Show 'Battle' Between Black Holes, Baby Stars

Posted 05.10.2012

By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 05/09/2012 01:12 PM EDT on SPACE.com The intense energy and winds from gigantic black holes can block the birth of ...

Monster Black Hole Caught Swallowing Unlucky Star

Posted 05.02.2012

By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 05/02/2012 01:09 PM EDT on SPACE.com Call it a Cosmic Scene Investigation: For the first time, scientists have iden...

Astronomers Agog Over Black Hole's Strange Activity

Posted 05.02.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/02/2012 07:13 AM EDT on SPACE.com A NASA space telescope has detected an incredible energy burst from a distan...

What Would Happen If You Fell Into A Black Hole?

Posted 04.16.2012

By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 04/13/2012 03:23 PM EDT on Lifes Little Mysteries In this weekly series, Life's Little Mysteries provides expert...

Black Hole Study Shows What Supermassive Monsters 'Eat' To Get So Big

Posted 04.06.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 04/06/2012 09:44 AM EDT on SPACE.com The supermassive black holes thought to lurk at the heart of most galaxies ...

Black Hole Winds Clocked At Record-Setting 20 Million MPH

Posted 02.22.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 02/21/2012 06:16 PM EST on SPACE.com Scientists have measured the fastest winds yet observed from a stellar-mass ...

Giant Black Hole May Be Eating Asteroids At Milky Way's Center

Posted 02.10.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 02/09/2012 01:34 PM EST on SPACE.com The gigantic black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy may be devourin...

Scientists Prepare For First Ever Black Hole

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 01.18.2012

At the center of our galaxy, an enormous black hole has worked invisibly for billions of years, and now scientists are gearing up to snap its picture....

Milky Way Black Hole May Soon Devour Planets

| Posted 12.27.2011

By John Matson (Click here for original article.) Times are tough on planet Earth right now, but at least we don’t have a supermassive black ...

WATCH: Black Hole To Devour Huge Gas Cloud

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 12.18.2011

A huge gas cloud in space is about to meet its end at the hands of a massive black hole at the center of our galaxy. According to the European Sout...

Scientists Discover BIGGEST Black Holes Ever Known To Exist

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 02.04.2012

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have found the biggest black holes known to exist – each one 10 billion times the size of our sun. A te...

Amazing Space Pictures

Posted 01.02.2012

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Flaring Black Hole 'Jet' Recorded By NASA

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 11.23.2011

We tend to think of black holes as a force drawing things inward, not expelling massive jets from their cores. But NASA's Wide-field Infrared Surve...

WATCH: Black Hole DEVOURS Nearby Star

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 10.25.2011

Prepare to have your mind blown. Back in March, when NASA's Swift spacecraft first detected what scientists believed to be a black hole eating a st...

Is There Any Escape From Black Holes?

Posted 10.11.2011

Black holes are terrifying. Perhaps the scariest thing about them is that there is no escape from a black hole. Or is there? New research suggests ...

WATCH: Dramatic, Terrifying Supernova Video

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 06.06.2011

Design company Burrell Durrant Hifle has posted a 15-minute video showcasing stunning animation sequences from the miniseries "Wonders of the Universe...

NASA Satellite Blinded By 'Biggest Ever Star Explosion Seen In Space'

Telegraph | Andrew Hough | Posted 05.25.2011

The space agency's orbiting Swift observatory was overwhelmed by glare from the eruption, called a gamma-ray burst....

The Ten Worst Job-Search Lies

Liz Ryan | Posted 05.25.2011

Liz Ryan

We have absorbed so much unfortunate job-search dogma over the years, so many ideas that hinder us and keep us focused on the wrong things.

Lie of Omission on a Job Application?

Liz Ryan | Posted 05.25.2011

Liz Ryan

There is no legal requirement for you to include every job you've ever held throughout your career.

Atom-Grabbing 'Black Hole' Created

New Scientist | Posted 05.25.2011

An artificial "black hole" designed to capture wayward atoms has been created. It paves the way for an atom trap that could yield previously unknown s...

Black Hole Simulator Uses Real Star Data To Take You Inside The Black Hole (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Jonathan Turley points HuffPost Tech to a new interactive program which shows what scientists believe it would be like to approach a black hole. The ...

Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham...Earth

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011

Rev. Jesse Jackson

For too long communities of color have not seen climate change as their problem, but we must now be a part of the solution. Poor people and people of color are feeling its adverse impact first and worst.

Re-Creating Creation, Take 2: The Large Hadron Collider Fires Up Again

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 05.25.2011

Ali A. Rizvi

Birds dropping baguettes, terrorist plots and nuclear critics have all tried to derail the Large Hadron Collider, but if all goes according to plan it will be re-creating the Big Bang in no time.

Large Hadron Collider is Either the Greenest or the Least Green Experiment Ever Made

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 05.25.2011

Mairi Beautyman

Someone hit a switch today and began either the greenest or one of the most environmentally disastrous experiments in the world: The Large Hadron Coll...

Atom-Smasher Could Open Black Hole, Reveal Secrets Of Science

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

The LA Times reports on the hair-raising concerns raised by some about the Large Hadron Collider, Europe's giant atom-smasher: Michelangelo L. Mangan...