According to a new study, astronomers in 2015 could be able to detect hundreds of black holes. Scientists from the Cardiff University plan to power on two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, or LIGO, in order to collect gravitational waves created by the collision of black holes millions of years in the past. The detectors from LIGO might be able to help us … [Read more...]
NASA’S WISE suggests unified Doughnut theory insufficient to decipher black holes
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has surveyed more than 170,000 supermassive black holes and found that the galaxies whose black holes are hidden from view tend to be clumped together. With the new finding, the astronomers are reexamining a decades-old theory about the varying appearances of these interstellar objects. The unified theory of active supermassive black holes, … [Read more...]
Discovered a New class of runaway hypervelocity stars
Washington, Jan 10: An international team of astronomers has discovered "hypervelocity stars", a new class of solitary runaway stars as described at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C., this week and is published in Astrophysical Journal. "These new hypervelocity stars are very different from the ones that have been discovered previously," Vanderbilt … [Read more...]