Article: Weird, wonderful black holes attract scientific study.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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: 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 ...

Article: Those mysterious black holes; How to plug a ...
Michigan Citizen;  August 6, 2005 ;     642 words ...Frazier, Greg Michigan Citizen 08-06-2005 There are two obvious fixes that need to happen to maintain the integrity of the city's electoral process: We need to audit the ballots used in local elections; and we need to properly count absentee votes by precinct, not by random category. Audit those

Article: Teacher, a black hole ate my homework! (astronomers ...
U.S. News & World Report;  January 27, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... wondered how common black holes are. To find out ... the hallmark of a black hole's gravity yanking ... horizon into a black hole--the best proof ... exists. Someday, black holes will rule the universe ... cannot escape, black holes use their powerful ... flowing ...