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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Concept Spacecraft . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This image of Earth (left) and the Moon (right) was taken by the Juno space probe's JunoCam, three weeks after its 5 August launch. (image credit:: NASA / JPL / MSSS) . ... Earth and the Moon form a тАЬdouble planetтАЭ unique in the Solar System. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

... If the mass of the collapsing star is more than three solar masses, however, no force can prevent it from collapsing completely to become a black hole. What is a black hole? Mini black holes . ... For Further Reading About Black Holes A black hole is a region of space in which the pull of gravity is so strong that nothing can escape. ... A black hole with a mass less than three solar masses would not form on its own; its gravity is too weak to cause it to completely collapse in on itself. ...

... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

... In 2000, just after being fixed, the Hubble Space Telescope imaged the Eskimo Nebula. ... A Message From Earth . ... The above message was broadcast from Earth towards the globular star cluster M13 in 1974. ... X For Andromeda . ... Exploring quasars and active galaxies in the distant universe, astronomers have come to believe that most galaxies have massive black holes at their centers. ... Until last week, all objects that might be black holes in our Galaxy were part of binary star systems. ...

... Feeding the Monster: Gas Caught in its Death Spiral into a Massive Black Hole . ... Stromlo Professor Mike Dopita have used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover how a massive Black Hole in a nearby galaxy feeds itself. ... Earlier Hubble Telescope data obtained by another team member, Professor Holland Ford of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, had found a disk of gas rushing around the Black Hole at a speed of 500 kilometers a second. ...

... Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to probe the core of the nearest active galaxy to Earth, Centaurus A. Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer was used to peer past the dust to discover a tilted disk of hot gas at the galaxy's center (white bar running diagonally across image center). This 130 light-year diameter disk encircles a suspected black hole which may be one billion times the mass of our Sun. ... Centaurus A (NGC 5128) Fast Facts . ...

... Special Reports Giant space cloud may be powered by black holes 17:57 23 April 2007 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga An enormous cloud of roiling plasma in space may be drawing its energy from black holes, new observations suggest. Such clouds might be sources for the mysterious particles that occasionally crash into Earth's atmosphere at ultra - high speed. ... But higher energy particles in the cloud may be able to escape, he says. ...

... Events . ... The Event Horizon Telescope: Observing Black Holes with Schwarzschild-Radius Resolution . ... Galaxy lies a super massive black hole - 4 million times more massive . ... Universe to spatially resolve and image a black hole Event Horizon. ... For the much more massive (6 billion solar mass) black hole . ... for assembling a submm-VLBI Event Horizon Telescope. ... emission near the event horizon of super massive black holes. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:20 AM CST, January 6, 1999 CONTACT: John Biretta Space Telecsope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: (410) 338-4917; Internet: biretta@stsci.edu) HUBBLE DETECTS FASTER-THAN-LIGHT MOTION IN GALAXY M87 Astronomers reported today discovering clouds which appear to move many times faster than the speed of light, shooting out from the region of a black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. ... It's an illusion created by the finite speed of light and rapid motion," Biretta said. ...

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... 2007 August 2 . M64: The Black Eye Galaxy . ... Explanation: This bright, beautiful spiral galaxy is Messier 64 , sometimes known as the Black Eye Galaxy. ... Observations show that M64 is actually composed of two concentric, counter-rotating systems of stars, one in the inner 3,000 light-years and another extending to about 40,000 light-years and rotating in the opposite direction. The dusty black eye and bizarre rotation is likely the result of a merger of two different galaxies. ...

... A radio galaxy is a galaxy that emits an unusually big amount of energy at radio wavelengths. ... Inside of each galaxy with an active nucleus (radio galaxies are among them) there must be a system of a "central machine" responsible for the colossal amount of the emitted energy from radio to gamma ranges. ... Sometimes a radio source in an active galaxy may flare again if the needed conditions appear (a new portion of matter would fall into the furnace of the "central machine"). ...

... Centaurus A : 15,000,000 light years away, in the constellation Centaurus, the closest AG to Earth . ... Astronomers think that the reason for the unusual shape of this galaxy is because hundreds of millions of years ago two galaxies, one dusty spiral and one bright ellipictal, collided causing a massive black hole in the middle and bright emmision of light. ... Andromeda galaxy: 2.8 million light years away, closest spiral galaxy to earth, farthest object one can see without a telescope. ...

... The black-hole powered core of the Circinus galaxy. ... Andy Bunker (AAO): "Galaxy evolution at the earliest accessible times" . ... Mark Lacy (CalTech): "High redshift radio galaxies and SMBH evolution" . Roger Windhorst (Arizona): "When during galaxy assembly did AGN growth take place?" ... Role of mergers and blackholes in galaxy evolution . ... Arman Khalatyan (Marseille): "The role of mergers in galaxy evolution" . ... Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Waves . ...

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... There are monsters lurking in space, which are called Black Holes. ... Astronomers know that some Black Holes are giants and that they live in the centres of most galaxies including our own galaxy, the Milky Way! These giant monsters are called Super-massive Black Holes . ... The Super-massive Black Holes that are currently eating are easier to find in the Universe, as the doomed space material shines brightly before it disappears forever into the monster s mouth. ...

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The Sun is our nearest star and the source of energy for life on Earth. ... For centuries astronomers wondered whether they were clouds floating in the Sun's atmosphere, but we now know that they really are huge regions of magnetic field, about as intense as the field at the poles of an iron magnet. ... Such abrupt events were named solar flares , and what made them especially interesting was that occasionally, after a prominent flare, a magnetic storm would erupt on Earth. ...