Black Holes: Page: 2

This is page 2 of the Black Holes posts on Science, Space & Robots.


Supermassive Black Holes Grow by Eating Binary Star Partners
A study by University of Utah astrophysicist Ben Bromley and colleagues at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has found that supermassive black holes grow by swallowing single stars from pairs of stars that wander too close. (April 2, 2012)

Runaway Planets Travel at Speeds up to 30 Million Miles Per Hour
Astronomers found a runaway star leaving our galaxy at a speed of 1. (March 22, 2012)

The Supermassive Black Hole
The Daily Galaxy has a great post about a massive black hole that sits at the center of a distant galaxy. (January 16, 2008)

Manmade Black Hole Risk is Extremely Small
Greg Landsberg at Brown University in Providence, R. (October 20, 2006)