Missing Black Hole Report: Hundreds Found!

[ashish27]

<br />http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/07_releases/press_102507.html<br /><br /><br /><br />Astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away<br /><br /> Normal Galaxies The massive, growing black holes, discovered by NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes, represent a large fraction of a long-sought missing population. Their discovery implies there are hundreds of millions of additional black holes growing in our young universe, more than doubling the total amount known at that distance. <br /><br />"Active, supermassive black holes are everywhere in the early universe," said Mark Dickinson of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Ariz. "We had seen the tip of the iceberg before in our search for these objects. Now, we can see the iceberg itself." Dickinson is a co-author of two new papers appearing in the Nov. 10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal. Emanuele Daddi of the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique in France led the research. <br /><br />The findings are also the first direct evidence that most, if not all, massive galaxies in the distant universe spend their youths building monstrous black holes at their cores. <br /><br />For decades, large populations of active black holes have been considered missing. These highly energetic structures, also called quasars, consist of a dusty, doughnut-shaped cloud that surrounds and feeds a growing supermassive black hole. They give off a lot of X-rays that can be detected as a general glow in space, but sometimes the quasars themselves can't be seen because dust and gas blocks their X-rays from our point of view.<br /><br />"We knew from other studies from about 30 years ago that there must be more quasars in the universe, but we didn't know where to find them until now," said Daddi.<br /><br />Daddi and his team initially set out to study 1,000 dusty, massive galax

 

[alokmohan]

This appears too obvious.There must be many unknown black holes.Why poor chaps spend so much public money?Anyway Chandra is from India,later American.Eddington who tried to discredit him may be sighing in heaven,hell or black hole.

 

[nova_explored]

Unless 'hawking's paradox' will just simply do away with his own creation and disprove the existence of black holes altogether. very likely too.. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[alokmohan]

Hawking dismisses paradox as it will create problems like matricide problem.Most of scientists disapproves time travel.Did you mean matricide problem?

 

[alokmohan]

spaceref.com has more black holes in store.