Article: Evidence points to 'massive black hole'.(News)

Article: "Skinny" galaxy harbors massive black hole ...
Science Letter;  May 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... accretion disk. Yet, no supermassive black hole had been detected. Filippenko ... 4395 indeed has a supermassive black hole, albeit an unusually light one. "Here is an example of a massive black hole that is low in comparison to all ...

Article: XMM-Newton uncovers well-tuned periodic signal from a ...
The Hindustan Times;  September 19, 2008 ;     598 words ... ... periodic signal from a super-massive black hole lodged at the centre of a galaxy ... the discovery. The super-massive black hole, whose signals XMM-Newton ... But until now, no super-massive black hole was known to display such a ...

Article: Homing in on Milky Way's black hole. (new evidence ...
Science News;  January 24, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... that the Milky Way's core contains a black hole as massive as 2.6 million suns. Although ... Stars lying closest to the suspected black hole--known as Sagittarius [A.sup ... of our galaxy would collapse to form a black hole after no more than a few million years ...

Article: EUR: "Super massive" black hole at centre of ...
AAP General News (Australia);  September 21, 2000 ;     314 words ... ... General News (Australia) 09-21-2000 EUR: "Super massive" black hole at centre of our galaxy In the centre of the Milky Way lurks a super-massive black hole, whose mighty gravitational force sucks in light ...

Article: Case for Massive Black Hole at Center of ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  February 18, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... saw stars accelerate around a supermassive black hole. They learned the location of the black hole from the acceleration. Ghez is now searching ... black holes or other dark matter near the massive black hole. One of the stars will complete its orbit ...

Article: Case for massive black hole strengthened.
Science Letter;  March 10, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... saw stars accelerate around a supermassive black hole. They learned the location of the black hole from the acceleration. Ghez is now searching ... black holes or other dark matter near the massive black hole. One of the stars will complete its orbit ...

Article: Exceptionally massive black hole discovered ...
The Hindustan Times;  October 18, 2007 ;     611 words ... ... astronomers have located an exceptionally massive black hole in orbit around a huge companion star. The black hole is part of a binary system in M33 ... M33 X-7 is the most massive stellar black hole known till date. A stellar black hole ...