Article: Shedding light on black holes.(News)

Article: The ultimate stealth attack. (Black ...
New Scientist;  September 21, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... searchlight. Although black holes are rare in our ... chance that a rogue black hole could come out ... We realised that black holes produce a very ... t bounce off a black hole, but it can be ... sunlight from a black hole up to a hundred ... 0209039). Because ...

Article: Hair today; Black holes.(What is inside a ...
The Economist (US);  March 6, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Hawking predicted that some black holes should emit radiation ... Dr Wheeler--that "black holes have no hair"--is ... by the hairlessness of black holes was that they could be ... Hawking discovered that a black hole radiates, however ...

Article: Death Star: Has the reign of black holes come to an ...
New Scientist;  January 19, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... ironclad proof that black holes exist. But never ... enough problems in black-hole theory itself to ... scale--such as black holes. So, they reasoned, when early black-hole theorists ignored ... traditional approach to black holes has produced strange ...

Article: Ringing a black hole. (computer simulations of ...
Science News;  June 26, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... coalescence of two black holes by looking at the ... wave and a single black hole. The results show ... As it rings, the black hole itself absorbs and ... pair of colliding black holes will quickly merge into a single black hole and begin oscillating ...

Article: Monster black holes. (researching galaxy ...
Science News;  October 31, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... is to make it a black hole," says Alan Dressler ... Calif. But while black holes have captured the ... definition, a black hole can't be seen ... evidence for galactic black holes can leave the average ... this year about black hole candidates - many ...

Article: The black hole next door; mighty particle ...
Science News;  March 23, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Think of a black hole. No one has ever ... includes thinking about black holes have conjured up ... presume any miniature black holes in the atmosphere ... first to observe a black hole. In this case, tiny black holes would form as an ...

Article: Iowa researchers find star orbiting black hole; ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  January 8, 2006 ;     482 words ... ... be larger than black holes that are formed ... smaller than the black holes in the centers ... explains why this black hole is so bright in ... s because the black hole can pull gas directly ... observations of other black holes," Kaaret said ...