News Release Archive: Exotic > Black Hole

2001 (continued)

• 1/11/2001 STScI-2001-03 11. 'Death Spiral' Around a Black Hole Yields Tantalizing Evidence of an Event Horizon The Hubble telescope may have, for the first time, provided direct evidence for the existence of black holes by observing... (More)

2000

• 7/6/2000 STScI-2000-20 12. A Cosmic Searchlight Streaming out from the center of the galaxy M87 like a cosmic searchlight is one of nature's most amazing phenomena, a black-hole-powered jet of electrons and other sub-atomic particles traveling... (More)
• 6/5/2000 STScI-2000-22 13. Black Holes Shed Light on Galaxy Formation Astronomers are concluding that monstrous black holes weren't simply born big but instead grew on a measured diet of gas and stars controlled by their host galaxies... (More)
• 6/5/2000 STScI-2000-21 14. Feasting Black Hole Blows Bubbles A monstrous black hole's rude table manners include blowing huge bubbles of hot gas into space. At least, that's the gustatory practice followed by the supermassive black hole residing... (More)
• 1/13/2000 STScI-2000-03 15. Lone Black Holes Discovered Adrift in the Galaxy Astronomers using the Hubble telescope and ground-based observatories have discovered the first examples of isolated, stellar-mass... (More)

1999

• 10/27/1999 STScI-1999-43 16. Very Long Baseline Array Reveals Formation Region of Giant Cosmic Jet Near a Black Hole Astronomers have seen the exhaust products of black hole "engines": narrow beams of material traveling... (More)

1998

• 6/18/1998 STScI-1998-22 17. Hubble Uncovers Dust Disk around a Massive Black Hole Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700-light-year-wide dust disk encircles a 300-million- solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical... (More)
• 5/14/1998 STScI-1998-14 18. Hubble Provides Multiple Views of How to Feed a Black Hole Astronomers have obtained an unprecedented look at the nearest example of galactic cannibalism — a massive... (More)

1997

• 9/10/1997 STScI-1997-28 19. Hubble Finds a Bare Black Hole Pouring Out Light Probing the heart of the active galaxy NGC 6251, the Hubble telescope has provided a never-before-seen view of a warped disk or ring of dust caught in a blazing... (More)
• 6/9/1997 STScI-1997-18 20. Fireworks Near a Black Hole in the Core of Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151 The Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph simultaneously records, in unprecedented detail, the velocities of hundreds of gas knots streaming... (More)