The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

— Anaxagoras 428 BC

black holes

A Guide to Outer Space Surveillance!

By kuky at Wed, 10/10/2012 - 11:21am

Pedro sent us an iteresting link for

9 Astronomy MIlestones for 2009

By myamiphil at Wed, 12/30/2009 - 2:10pm
9 Astronomy Milestones in 2009
By Jeremy Hsu
SPECIAL to SPACE.com
posted: 28 December 2009
06:09 pm ET

Black Holes heavier than once thought....

By myamiphil at Fri, 06/19/2009 - 11:07pm

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090607_blackholes

Giant black holes even bigger than thought: study

June 8, 2009
Courtesy Amer­i­can As­tro­nom­i­cal So­ci­e­ty
and World Science staff

As­tro­no­mers have used com­put­er sim­ula­t­ions to cal­cu­late that a black hole at the heart of one the larg­est near­by ga­lax­ies is two to three times heav­i­er than pre­vi­ously thought.

John Wheeler (1911-2008)

By Kevin at Mon, 04/14/2008 - 6:34pm

John Wheeler, the great physicist who coined the term "black hole", passed away yesterday: http://cosmicvariance.com/2008/04/13/goodbye/

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=pioneering-physicist-john-wheeler-dies