Waspie_Dwarf Posted September 6, 2013 #1 Share Posted September 6, 2013 (edited) Catching Black Holes on the Fly NASA's black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has "bagged" its first 10 supermassive black holes. The mission, which has a mast the length of a school bus, is the first telescope capable of focusing the highest-energy X-ray light into detailed pictures.The new black-hole finds are the first of hundreds expected from the mission over the next two years. These gargantuan structures -- black holes surrounded by thick disks of gas -- lie at the hearts of distant galaxies between 0.3 and 11.4 billion light-years from Earth. Read more... Edited September 6, 2013 by Waspie_Dwarf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecowboy342 Posted September 6, 2013 #2 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Has it not been theorised that every galaxy contains a black hole at it's center? Has this idea been discredited? Or simply not confirmed? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted September 6, 2013 Author #3 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Has it not been theorised that every galaxy contains a black hole at it's center? Has this idea been discredited? Or simply not confirmed? I think it is still pretty much the in vogue hypothesis. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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