Post Tagged with: "X-ray astronomy"

AstroSpace Update – June 2010

AstroSpace Update
June 2010
Gathered by Don Lynn from NASA and other sources
Runaway black hole – A college student in the Netherlands has discovered what appears to be a supermassive black hole that has been ejected from the center of its galaxy.

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AstroSpace Update – April 2010

AstroSpace Update
April 2010
Gathered by Don Lynn from NASA and other sources
Chandra (orbiting X-ray Observatory) has studied several elliptical galaxies and failed to find the X-ray emission expected from Type Ia supernovas. It has been generally accepted that Type Ia supernovas occur in 2 ways:

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AstroSpace Update – February 2009

AstroSpace Update
February 2009
Gathered by Don Lynn from NASA and other sources
Black hole mass – It has been known for quite a few years that the mass of a black hole at the center of any galaxy is about 1/1000 the mass of the central bulge of the galaxy. But no one has been able to [...]

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