blackhole – Behind The Black

Watching a black hole devour a star, 3.9 billion light years away

August 24, 2011 3:10 pm Robert Zimmerman

Watching a black hole devour a star, 3.9 billion light years away.

Using a black hole as your starship engine

May 19, 2011 9:05 am Robert Zimmerman

Using a black hole as your starship engine.

Runaway star from the galaxy’s center

July 21, 2010 11:14 pm Robert Zimmerman

Astronomers have discovered a runaway star flying away from the Milky Way galaxy at about 450 miles per second. What makes this star even more interesting is that its flight path suggests that it was thrown from the very center of our galaxy by the 4 billion solar mass black hole that sits there.