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Apr 1 16 12:23 AM
Earlier this week something happened to make Japan’s brand new black hole satellite suddenly, mysteriously lose all contact with Earth. Now, we have video of it spinning wildly in space—and JAXA has also received a few odd, new messages.After a long, tense silence, Hitomi sent two very terse messages in response to JAXA’s continued attempts to contact it. But that doesn’t mean anything like full communications—much less control—has been re-established. The messages were so short that JAXA has no new information about either the state of the satellite, or what happened to knock it off kilter in the first place. There might be some clues in this video of the Hitomi shot by astronomer Paul Maley in Arizona.
Earlier this week something happened to make Japan’s brand new black hole satellite suddenly, mysteriously lose all contact with Earth. Now, we have video of it spinning wildly in space—and JAXA has also received a few odd, new messages.
After a long, tense silence, Hitomi sent two very terse messages in response to JAXA’s continued attempts to contact it. But that doesn’t mean anything like full communications—much less control—has been re-established. The messages were so short that JAXA has no new information about either the state of the satellite, or what happened to knock it off kilter in the first place.
There might be some clues in this video of the Hitomi shot by astronomer Paul Maley in Arizona.
Read more @ http://gizmodo.com/japan-s-lost-black-hole-satellite-just-reappeared-and-n-1768036648?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
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Apr 8 16 1:32 PM
http://news.discovery.com/space/galaxies/supermassive-black-holes-could-be-everywhere-160406.htm
04/11/16 13:04:33
Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy in a "sparsely populated" area of the universe, NASA announced yesterday. The finding is important because black holes that size were believed to exist only at the core of very large galaxy clusters. The newly found black hole, observed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Telescope in Hawaii, seems to suggest that such black holes are more common that once thought.
Read more @ http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/7/11385850/massive-black-hole-discovered-ngc-galaxy
04/13/16 22:36:06
A highly sensitive radio telescope has seen something peculiar in the depths of our cosmos: A group of supermassive black holes are mysteriously aligned, as if captured in a synchronized dance. These black holes, which occupy the centers of galaxies in a region of space called ELAIS-N1, appear to have no relation to one another, separated by millions of light-years. But after studying the radio waves generated by the twin jets blasting from the black holes’ poles, astronomers using data from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India realized that all the jets were pointed in the same direction, like arrows on compasses all pointing “north.”
A highly sensitive radio telescope has seen something peculiar in the depths of our cosmos: A group of supermassive black holes are mysteriously aligned, as if captured in a synchronized dance.
These black holes, which occupy the centers of galaxies in a region of space called ELAIS-N1, appear to have no relation to one another, separated by millions of light-years. But after studying the radio waves generated by the twin jets blasting from the black holes’ poles, astronomers using data from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India realized that all the jets were pointed in the same direction, like arrows on compasses all pointing “north.”
Read more @ http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/bizarre-group-of-distant-black-holes-are-mysteriously-aligned-160412.htm?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
04/16/16 13:03:09
Scientists for the first time have been able to detect as many as 64 supermassive black holes together covering a large region of our universe called ELAIS-N1. Most remarkable point about the discovery is that all those black holes are sending radio signals in the same direction. The new discovery was published by researchers from South Africa on Monday. Radio jets are emissions of radio waves from the black holes. "This is not obviously expected based on our current understanding of cosmology. It’s a bizarre finding”, said Romeel Dave, an astrophysicist with the University of the Western Cape. The finding came unexpected when the South African scientists from the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape were trying to map faint radio emissions with the help of the South African MeerKAT radio telescope and the soon-to-be-built Square Kilometre Array, which when completed will become world's most powerful radio telescope.
Scientists for the first time have been able to detect as many as 64 supermassive black holes together covering a large region of our universe called ELAIS-N1. Most remarkable point about the discovery is that all those black holes are sending radio signals in the same direction. The new discovery was published by researchers from South Africa on Monday. Radio jets are emissions of radio waves from the black holes.
"This is not obviously expected based on our current understanding of cosmology. It’s a bizarre finding”, said Romeel Dave, an astrophysicist with the University of the Western Cape.
The finding came unexpected when the South African scientists from the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape were trying to map faint radio emissions with the help of the South African MeerKAT radio telescope and the soon-to-be-built Square Kilometre Array, which when completed will become world's most powerful radio telescope.
Read more @ http://mainenewsonline.com/content/16048278-scientists-detect-64-black-holes-discharging-radio-waves-same
SCIENTISTS have been left baffled by the discovery black holes that have aligned in close proximity in a region of the distant universe which has led to some speculating that an advanced alien race is responsible.A staggering 64 supermassive black holes have been spotted all pointing at the same direction and spinning in sync – with experts saying that there is less than 0.1 per cent chance of this happening.It is the first time such a vast number of supermassive black holes have been spotted in the same region of the universe. They were all spewing radio jets from their centre.
A staggering 64 supermassive black holes have been spotted all pointing at the same direction and spinning in sync – with experts saying that there is less than 0.1 per cent chance of this happening.
It is the first time such a vast number of supermassive black holes have been spotted in the same region of the universe. They were all spewing radio jets from their centre.
Read more @ http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/661047/Are-ALIENS-harbouring-energy-from-BLACK-HOLES-64-found-spinning-in-sync-in-one-region