Read more black hole stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/5126/black-hole.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:44:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/65320/monster-black-hole-sucking-up-space.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA monstrous black hole near the center of a distant galaxy is sucking up stars, gas and dust, and spitting out baby stars, NASA scientists have discovered. The black hole is 100 million times the mass of the sun, reports the Telegraph . It lies at the center of a galaxy...http://www.newser.com/story/65320/monster-black-hole-sucking-up-space.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 26 Jul 2009 7:26:15 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56963/space-blob-stumps-scientists.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA gigantic blob at the edge of the universe is forcing scientists to rethink their ideas on how galaxies form, reports the BBC. The radiation-emitting object 12.9 billion light years away is one of the most distant—and consequently oldest—things ever seen by astronomers, and is much bigger...http://www.newser.com/story/56963/space-blob-stumps-scientists.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 23 Apr 2009 7:53:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/44989/scientists-say-black-hole-lies-at-center-of-galaxy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA giant black hole sits at the core of our galaxy, say astronomers who participated in a 16-year German study that monitored the movements of 28 stars circling the center of the Milky Way. “Beyond any reasonable doubt,” the stars orbit a core concentration of mass 4 million times greater...http://www.newser.com/story/44989/scientists-say-black-hole-lies-at-center-of-galaxy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 11 Dec 2008 17:22:55 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/40898/hawking-to-retire-from-cambridge-post.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagStephen Hawking will retire from his chair at Cambridge University at the end of this academic year, the Telegraph reports. But the esteemed physicist will continue working at the college in an emeritus position. Cambridge requires profs to step down when they reach 67, and Hawking’s birthday is in January....http://www.newser.com/story/40898/hawking-to-retire-from-cambridge-post.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 25 Oct 2008 14:15:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34575/dutch-teacher-discovers-green-space-ghost.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Dutch schoolteacher earned her moment in the sun by discovering a cosmic ball of gas some have labeled a space “ghost,” NPR reports. Hanny van Arkel, 25, was working as a volunteer with a galaxy-classifying website when she came upon what “looked like a regular galaxy but much bluer....http://www.newser.com/story/34575/dutch-teacher-discovers-green-space-ghost.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 10 Aug 2008 14:14:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/23197/black-mini-still-has-hole-lotta-power.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAstronomers have spotted the smallest black hole ever discovered, Reuters reports. It is just 15 miles across—the size of a city—but still has a pull strong enough to "stretch your body into a strand of spaghetti," said a NASA researcher. The relative pipsqueak weighs about as much as...http://www.newser.com/story/23197/black-mini-still-has-hole-lotta-power.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 Apr 2008 10:10:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/22878/particle-collider-prompts-doomsday-suit.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA particle smasher in Switzerland could suck up Earth and possibly the whole universe, a US lawsuit claims. The suit warns that the $8 billion Large Hadron Collider near Geneva could spark a matter-sucking black hole or a "strangelet" that turns our planet into "strange matter." But one Princeton scientist...http://www.newser.com/story/22878/particle-collider-prompts-doomsday-suit.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 30 Mar 2008 14:45:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/10613/black-hole-smashes-record.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA newly discovered stellar-mass black hole shatters the weight record for holes formed from dying stars—and defies explanation by current theories. Faced with its mysterious heft, astrophysicists can only conclude that stellar-mass black holes "can be much larger than we had realized," Space.com reports.http://www.newser.com/story/10613/black-hole-smashes-record.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 31 Oct 2007 6:38:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/8439/scientists-stumped-by-blast-from-outer-space.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA bizarre burst from outer space has scientists talking black holes and colliding stars, Physorg reports — and may even help us "determine the amount of material in intergalactic space," one researcher says. The radio waves, which were measured in milliseconds, might be a blast from 2 superdense neutron stars or...http://www.newser.com/story/8439/scientists-stumped-by-blast-from-outer-space.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 29 Sep 2007 17:15:44 CDT