Astronomy Picture of the Day . Too Close to a Black Hole . ... Credit Copyright: Alain Riazuelo Explanation: What would you see if you went right up to a black hole? ... The black hole has such strong gravity that light is noticeably bent towards it - causing some very unusual visual distortions . ... Black holes are thought to be the densest state of matter, and there is indirect evidence for their presence in stellar binary systems and the centers of globular clusters, galaxies , and quasars . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2014 October 26 . Too Close to a Black Hole . ... Explanation: What would you see if you went right up to a black hole? ... The black hole has such strong gravity that light is noticeably bent towards it - causing some very unusual visual distortions . ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... 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. ...

... These Frontier Fields will combine the power of HST with the natural gravitational telescopes of high-magnification clusters of galaxies. ... We are soliciting gravitational lensing maps for the last four Hubble Frontier Fields clusters (MACSJ0717.5+3745, MACSJ1149.5+2223, AbellS1063, and Abell 370) based upon the exceptionally deep HST FF imaging and other new ancillary data. ... For the full set of proposal instructions and requirements, see the FY16 Frontier Fields Lensing Map Call for Proposals....

Blackholes Forum Message . Forums: . ... Black Holes And RedShift . ... Perhaps black holes really are the reproductive means of the universe.Could the black hole of a Quasar red-shift the electromagnetic energy trying to escape it? ... Perhaps black holes treat electromagnetic energy the same way. ... No one really knows enough about Quasars and black holes to say for sure but ask yourself this: Why would all the Quasars in the universe be moving away from the Milky Way? ... www.astronomy.net . ...

... ESO Acronyms . ... Quasars and Black Holes . ... Black Hole at the Centre of our Galaxy . ... This view shows a simulation of how a gas cloud that has been observed approaching the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy may break apart over the next few years. This is the first time ever that the approach of such a doomed cloud to a supermassive black hole has been observed and it is expected to break up completely during 2013. ... Milky Way : Galaxy : Component : Central Black Hole . ...

... Opening of COSMION - 99 Chair - M.Yu.Khlopov 10.50-11.25. A.Yu.Kamenshchik, I.M.Khalatnikov, A.V.Toporensky "Dynamics of Closed Cosmological Model with a Scalar Field" 11.25-12.00. A.A. Starobinsky "A new life of the Lifshitz-Khalatnikov quasi-isotropic solution" Coffee break Chair - A.A.Starobinsky 12.20-12.55. ... M.Yu.Khlopov "Cosmological Consequence of the Particle Theory: Dark Matter, Antimatter and Mirror Matter in the Universe" Coffee break Chair - Yu.N.Parijsky 12.30-13.10. ...

... We have measured this "redshift" for the pink black holes, and allowed for it in our calculations. ... We see this effect in the emission from gas around these pink black holes, but it is far too small an effect to account for the pinkness. Thus the swirling motions of gas around or into the black holes cannot produc the colour. ... At first we thought that these things were normal blue black holes hidden behind clouds of interstellar dust, that absorbed the blue light and made them appear pink. ...

... MAO main . ... The DRAGON globular cluster simulations: a million stars, black holes and gravitational waves . ... simulations of globular clusters with a million stars on the high-performance . ... of stars in globular clusters at unprecedented detail but also shed light into . the dark world of black holes. ... clusters of single and binary black holes. ... of a globular cluster. www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/328833/hl201603 . ... MAO/NASU, 27 Akademika Zabolotnoho St. 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine . ...

... 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. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... The event horizon is the boundary of a black hole) . ... When the supermassive star implodes (collapses under it?s own gravity) a black hole is formed. Many black holes have been found in the centres of galaxies. ... It was thought that black holes don?t give out any energy at all (except when engulfing stars). ... It is thought that as the stars pass near to the centre, they are pulled in by the black hole and forced to remain orbiting around the black hole. ...

... SS433 is a close binary system, one star is a supergiant, a second one is a black hole. ... Even a black hole cannot accept such an enormous mass flux, a supercritical accretion disk appears, all the excess gas glows up to several tens of thousands degrees and is ejected off the disk with enormous velocities. ... SAO researchers have found an evidence of the supercritical accretion onto a black hole in SS433, which follows from a brightness variability of the SS433 disk. ...

... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a never-before-seen view of a warped disk flooded with a torrent of ultraviolet light from hot gas trapped around a suspected massive black hole. ... This composite image of the core of the galaxy was constructed by combining a visible light image taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), with a separate image taken in ultraviolet light with the Faint Object Camera (FOC). ... The inset box shows Hubble Space Telescope's field of view. ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... The Australia Telescope National Facility Colloquium . ... Title: Quiescent black holes in globular clusters: the nature of low-luminosity accretion . ... I will present our initial results, and outline ongoing follow-up campaigns to verify the black hole nature of these sources, as well as a major radio survey to determine the demographics of this newly-discovered population of candidate black holes....

... 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. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place . ... black holes . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Telescope and satellite probe violently variable black holes . ... Flickering black hole . ... These are among the fastest observations of a black hole ever obtained with a large optical telescope," Dhillon said. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

Black Holes . Artist's conception of black hole GRO J1655-40. There is a flash of light because scientists think that the black hole is spinning. ... An artist's diagram of a black hole pulling matter from the normal star HDE 226868 . ... Two images of the same piece of sky, both contain the constellation Orion. The image on the contains a black hole in the center. In the constellation Orion, in the image on the right, the belt is distorted. ... Student home . Image Home . ...

Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2009js in NGC 918 . Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. Discovered independently by Lick Observatory Supernova Search (USA) and Koichi Itagaki (Japan). ... 2009/10/11.44 . 17.2 . ... Joseph Brimacombe . ...

... Abubekerov M.K., Lipunov V.M. "The Lower Temperature Limits Of Accretors" Astronomy Reports, 2003, Vol. 47, Issue 8, pp.679-684. ... Abubekerov M.K., Antokhina E.A., Cherepashchuk A.M. "The Masses of X-ray Pulsars in Binary systems with OB Supergiants" Astronomy Reports, 2004, Vol. ... Abubekerov M.K., Antokhina E.A., Cherepashchuk A.M., Shimanskii V.V. "The Mass of the Compact Object in the Low-Mass X-ray Binary 2S 0921-630" Astronomy Reports Astronomy Reports, 2006, Vol.50, Issue 7, pp.544-552. ...