Jun 8, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered that black holes can change between two different modes, like changing the gears of an engine. Artist’s...

May 18, 2012 by James Freeman

By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international team of astrophysicists has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive...

May 10, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory has shown that the number of stars that form during the early lives of galaxies...

May 1, 2012 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a new ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) produced by a black hole in a...

Apr 2, 2012 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the University of Utah and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has found a new explanation for the growth of supermassive...

Feb 16, 2012 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using the Hubble telescope has studied a mid-sized black hole in the spectacular edge-on galaxy ESO 243-49 and found that it is surrounded...