Friday, October 18, 2013

ScienceDaily: Black Holes News

ScienceDaily: Black Holes News


Gravitational waves help us understand black-hole weight gain

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 02:40 PM PDT

Supermassive black holes: every large galaxy's got one. But here's a real conundrum: how did they grow so big? A new article pits the front-running ideas about the growth of supermassive black holes against observational data -- a limit on the strength of gravitational waves, obtained with CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia.

Fat black holes grown up in 'cities': Observational result using virtual observatory

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 05:01 AM PDT

Massive black holes of more than one million solar masses exist at the center of most galaxies.  Some of the massive black holes are observed as active galactic nuclei (AGN) which attract surrounding gas  and release huge amounts of energy.

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