Forces of Creation: Black Holes Spark Star Formation
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New observations portray black holes as Jekyll and Hyde characters. They can be creators as well as destroyers.
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Black holes may actually drag the fabric of space and time around them as they spin, creating waves for cosmic material to surf on, astronomers said on Monday.
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An examination of distant stellar explosions shows that the mysterious force, which many think is causing the universe to expand, dates back at least 9 billion years.
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The world's biggest collider hopes to create a smorgasbord of exotic particles, from the so-called God particle to dark matter and maybe even miniature black holes. John Borland goes to the edge of theory.
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named Swift for its fast pivoting and pointing -- launched this weekend will detect and analyze gamma ray bursts, which astronomers believe represent the birth cries of black holes.
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Astronomers sifting through  the radiation signals emanating from a distant black hole have separated the  emission into its two component parts, a key step in understanding how such  massive objects work.
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The heaviest "small"   black hole ever has been discovered, and its mass of   24 to 33 times that of our sun defies current theories   to explain its formation, scientists say.
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The mystery of how the darkest galaxies in the Universe came to exist may be solved.
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Astronomers have found the biggest stellar black hole so far, a monster with a mass 15.65 times that of our Sun, lurking in a nearby spiral-shaped galaxy.
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By casting a wide net, astronomers have captured an image of more than a thousand supermassive black holes.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has produced a vivid portrait of the early days of the universe, when baby galaxies were forming and stars were just beginning to shine.
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A long- sought-after Holy Grail for astronomers is a complete understanding of how galaxies such as the Milky Way formed. But since scientists believe
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Boffins go back to the drawing board Researchers have located the most massive stellar black hole ever discovered, just three million light-years away in a nearby galaxy. The stellar remnant is in a binary system known as M33, orbiting a huge companion star. The researchers say the find is "intriguing", because of what it suggests about stellar evolution.â¦
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Orphaned stars are being born in a vast tail of material stretching behind a faraway galaxy, astronomers said today.
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Supercomputed big bang Scientists have a better understanding of the role black holes have played in the evolution of galaxies in our cosmos, thanks to a new and unprecedentedly detailed simulation of the universe developed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University.â¦
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New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope strongly suggest that infrared light detected in a prior study originated from clumps of the very first objects of the Universe.
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Holy belching quasars, Batman NASA astronomers think they have identified a pair of supermassive black holes, or quasars, that look like they are teetering on the brink of huge explosions.â¦