... 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....

... Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the front end of the disk eclipses more stars than the back, it appears darker. ... Despite its size, the disk is 100 times less massive than the black hole. ... The bright spot in the center of the disk is the combined light of stars that have crowded around the black hole due to its strong gravitational pull. ...

... 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. ...

... 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. ...

... The Supermassive Black Holes of NGC 6240 . ... CXC , NASA Explanation: The Hubble optical image on the left shows NGC 6240 in the throes of a titanic galaxy - galaxy collision 400 million light-years away. ... In the false-color close-up view at right, the x-ray data clearly show the black hole sources (shaded blue) separated by about 3,000 light-years. ... Publications with keywords: NGC 6240 - black hole - X-ray . Publications with words: NGC 6240 - black hole - X-ray . ...

... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Merging Black Holes in Galaxies: Galaxy Evolution, AGN and Gravitational Waves . ... The first meeting in an annual series of international astrophysics conferences, co-organized by the Anglo-Australian Observatory and the Australia Telescope National Facility, is now scheduled for 15 to 20 June with the title, "Merging Black Holes in Galaxies: Galaxy Evolution, AGN and Gravitational Waves". ...

... PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: Black hole accretion versus star burst episodes: what is the engine of powerful active galaxies? ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... ESO-MIDAS . ... ESO Data . ... ESO HST Image Galleries . ... The aim of this research project is to understand the emission mechanism(s) in these active galaxies: . how much power is ultimately due to accretion onto supermassive black holes and how much is due to star formation processes ? ...

home education > activities . ... Quick math activity that asks students to calculate scale models of a binary star system with a black hole in it. [h] . ... Students use a radiometer and a light bulb with a dimmer switch to make connections between the temperature, color, and radiation output of a star. ... This demonstration, similar to the above, from the Exploratorium Snack-book of science activities, lets students demonstrate how molecules scatter light and change the colors of the beam. [m,h] . ...

... 2002 November 28 . The Supermassive Black Holes of NGC 6240 . Credit: Optical: R.P.van der Marel J.Gerssen ( STScI ), NASA ; . X-ray: S.Komossa G.Hasinger ( MPE ) et al., ... Using the orbiting Chandra Observatory's x-ray vision to peer within the bright central regions of NGC 6240 astronomers believe they have uncovered, for the first time , not one but two enormous orbiting black holes , by detecting the characteristic x-ray radiation from the interstellar debris swirling toward them. ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Galaxy Formation and Evolution . ... Gas heating and outflows driven by accreting supermassive black holes (quasar phase) may affect the evolution of star formation in their host galaxy. ... The starburst galaxy M82, which expels dust and metal enriched gas out of its disk . ... The interstellar medium (ISM) plays a central role in galaxy evolution, providing the fuel for star formation and also hosting the ?fossil record? of the galaxy formation history. ...

... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

Proposal Identification No.: A2121 Date Received: 2005-May-26 13:05:41 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category: Sub-Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Prop osal Title: Regular Astronomy Spectroscopy Extragalactic 125 Hours HI Emission Profiles in AGN Hosts: A New Strategy to Test the Black Hole-Host Galaxy Paradigm ABSTRACT: Recent surveys of black holes in the centers of nearby galaxies strongly suggest a close connection b etween black hole growth and galaxy formation. ...

... 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. ...

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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 . ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

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... The circumnuclear GASEOUS disks are often decoupled from the circumnuclear stellar disks and are even stronger inclined to the outer disk planes; in fact, we have found a considerable `population' of inner polar rings. Inner gas polar rings are found as in spiral galaxies with the massive outer gas disks co-planar to the main symmetry planes (e.g. NGC 2841, Sil'chenko et al. 1997, and NGC 7217, Sil'chenko & Afanasiev 2000) as well in many lenticular galaxies (Fig. ...

... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... SUBJECT: 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. 25-29, 2014 . ... which will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from August 25-29, 2014, hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences . ... China), . ... 1st Announcement IAU Symposium 312 Star Clusters and Black Holes Across Cosmic Time, Beijing, China, Aug. ...