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It means literally \"bad star.” Many cultures regarded the appearance of a comet in the skies a bad omen or harbinger of doom.\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://nineplanets.org/comets.html\" title=\"Comets\" target=\"_blank\">Have you seen a disaster lately?\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8. \u003cem>The moon may be 400 times smaller than the sun, but since it's 400 times closer to us they appear exactly the same size! What a coincidence.\u003c/em> Since the moon was once much closer to Earth, and will in the future get much farther away (at a rate of mere inches per year), it is a bit of a coincidence, really. 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We take this data and we turn it into images; we look in these images for pinpoints of X-ray light. Each one will be a hallmark of a black hole. NuSTAR will see hundreds and hundreds of black holes,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison and her colleague, William Craig, spent ten years working on NuSTAR, in part because the technology didn't exist at the time to focus high-energy x-rays - the kind used in dental and medical offices - emitted from cosmic sources billions of light years away. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do this, Craig and his team took 4,000 pieces of glass twice the thickness of a human hair and stacked them in a nested array which greatly increased the surface area for reflecting the high-energy x-rays onto NuSTAR's digital detector 33 feet away from its lens. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ever since Princeton physicist John Wheeler coined the term nearly 50 years ago, black holes have evoked a sense of mystery and wonder for astronomers and space enthusiasts. But unlike comets, stars and other beautiful objects in the night sky, black holes can't actually be seen - they trap light, after all. From this infinitely dark void, myths and misconceptions have taken flight, spurred by the sci-fi depictions of black holes as cold cosmic villains with a bottomless appetite for nearby planets, stars and mighty spacecrafts whizzing through the galaxy at warp speed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43212\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/08/607A_BlackHoles_6-14-12_AFilippenko1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/08/607A_BlackHoles_6-14-12_AFilippenko1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"607A_BlackHoles_6-14-12_AFilippenko\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-43212\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Filippenko, a professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley, during his interview at Chabot Space & Science Ctr. Image courtesy of C.K. Hickey / QUEST.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Watching sci-fi movies is fun in part because as a scientist, I like to try to find out what’s wrong with it. On the other hand, you know, some of what we used to think was sci-fi became reality,\" said Alex Filippenko, a UC Berkeley professor of astronomy who has been studying and hunting black holes for 30 years. He also teaches one of the most popular classes at UC Berkeley, an introduction to astronomy course which attracts thousands of students a year, many of whom are non-science majors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Filippenko helped debunk for me some of the fanciful myths about black holes, including the ability to travel through time by surfing a 'wormhole', a theoretical portal which connects two black holes and leads to another universe. He told me, \"People sometimes think that by jumping into a black hole you can travel backward in time. But that’s not really possible because after you jump into the black hole, you’ll get crushed or vaporized.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43189\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/08/607A_BlackHoles_generic1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/08/607A_BlackHoles_generic1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"607A_BlackHoles_generic1\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-43189\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist's illustration of a black hole. Image courtesy of European Space Agency, NASA and F. Mirabel.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though black holes don't behave like the celestial monsters with insatiable appetites they're sometimes caricatured to be, there is still plenty of wonder and unanswered questions about them to satisfy astronomers for years to come. For example, scientists have distinguished between two major classes of black holes - stellar black holes (also known as stellar-mass black holes) and supermassive black holes. The former are roughly six to 30 times the mass of the sun and the latter are a whopping million to billions of times the mass of the sun. So are there \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-mass_black_hole\" title=\"Wikipedia entry on Intermediate-mass black holes\">intermediate-mass black holes\u003c/a>, on the order of hundreds to thousands of times the mass of the sun? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quite possibly, yes. In August, a team from Keio University in Japan announced their discovery of a region of space 30,000 light years away which they suspect might contain young, intermediate-mass black holes. One of these black hole candidates is nearby Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole which lurks at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It took two separate teams of astronomers years to estimate the mass of Sagittarius A* (four million times the mass of the sun) from meticulous calculations of its gravitational effects on orbiting stars. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43216\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/08/607A_BlackHoles_FHarrison.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/08/607A_BlackHoles_FHarrison-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"607A_BlackHoles_FHarrison\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-43216\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fiona Harrison, the Principal Investigator on the NuSTAR project, inside mission control at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory. Image courtesy of Sheraz Sadiq / QUEST.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nustar.caltech.edu/\">NuSTAR\u003c/a>, a NASA telescope about the size of a large fridge which launched in June, can much more nimbly and swiftly detect the presence of black holes by viewing, with its sophisticated optics, the glow of high-energy x-rays emitted from the vicinity of black holes currently hidden behind thickets of cosmic dust and gas. Caltech's Fiona Harrison, the Principal Investigator, explained how the NuSTAR telescope will beam its observational results to the the team of astronomers, physicists and engineers who've toiled diligently to ensure the success of this low-cost, high-impact mission. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Four times a day, NuSTAR will send its data down to a ground station, in Malindi, Kenya...and the data from these surveys comes down to scientists around the world. We take this data and we turn it into images; we look in these images for pinpoints of X-ray light. Each one will be a hallmark of a black hole. NuSTAR will see hundreds and hundreds of black holes,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison and her colleague, William Craig, spent ten years working on NuSTAR, in part because the technology didn't exist at the time to focus high-energy x-rays - the kind used in dental and medical offices - emitted from cosmic sources billions of light years away. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To do this, Craig and his team took 4,000 pieces of glass twice the thickness of a human hair and stacked them in a nested array which greatly increased the surface area for reflecting the high-energy x-rays onto NuSTAR's digital detector 33 feet away from its lens. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44489\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/21/black-holes-ultimate-trash-compactors-of-the-universe/blackhole/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44489\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/blackhole.jpg\" alt=\"Artist concept of a black hole and companion star. Credit ESA/Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre (M. Kornmesser, L. L. Christensen)\" title=\"Artist concept of a black hole and companion star. Credit ESA/Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre (M. Kornmesser, L. L. Christensen)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44489\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/blackhole.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/blackhole-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist concept of a black hole and companion star. Credit ESA/Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre (M. Kornmesser, L. L. Christensen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ever hear the one \"Black holes are out of sight\"? Or how about, \"Two protons walk into a black hole\" (end of joke)? How about the definition, \"Black holes are what you get in black socks\"?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All joking aside (though I may not hold myself to that), the black hole has been deeply entrenched in human imagination as well as popular culture for about as long as it has been an idea, theory, or studied object in science. The first scientific ideas on regions of gravity so strong that light cannot escape were kicked about in the 18th Century. In 1916, Karl Schwarzschild brought the idea into the realm of mathematics, and almost 50 years after that the first observational evidence for the existence of a black hole was discovered. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1964, a rocket-born probe peaking at space from just outside of Earth's atmosphere detected intense X-ray emissions coming from a spot in the constellation Cygnus. Designated Cygnus X-1, this location earned the distinction of being the first probable detection a black hole. The X-rays were explained as coming from the gases of a nearby companion star being pulled off and swallowed up, heating up to a searing X-ray glow before disappearing into the black hole. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This indirect detection of the black hole's theorized presence set the character for future detections of black holes. Since light cannot escape from such a beast, we cannot see the black hole directly but must infer its presence through the effects on its surroundings. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone once likened a black hole to the Cheshire Cat from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: the original star has vanished from sight, and all that is left is its grinning gravity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the theory went, a black hole like Cygnus X-1 is formed when a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel, the core collapsing under its own powerful gravity and the outer shell blown away as a supernova explosion. The collapsing core crushes itself to a mere point in space that contains all of its mass—the ultimate in trash compactors. Infinitely dense and with such intense gravity that nothing, not even light, can escape from the region surrounding it, the \"singularity\" formed by the collapse becomes one of the most mind-warping and thought-twisting things in existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, many other black hole candidates have been detected. In the case of Cygnus X-1, observations have shown that it has a mass 14.8 times that of our Sun, and has a \"light trapping\" reach of about 16 miles—the black hole's \"event horizon.\" To all things--light, matter, and a heroic astronaut caught up in an epic science fiction adventure—the event horizon is the ultimate point of no return. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The equations that showed how an object like the Cygnus X-1 black hole could, or even should, exist in nature also told scientists something that really opened up the imagination: there should be no limit on the size, or mass, of a black hole. As difficult as it may be to imagine the mass of ten, twenty, or thirty Suns crushed to a point in space, the math promised that black holes with millions or even billions of solar masses could exist, which pointed scientists to the cores of galaxies, regions known to contain a lot of material from which such supermassive black holes might form. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is believed that the core of every major galaxy probably contains a supermassive black hole. Our own Milky Way is believed to contain a 4.3 million solar mass black hole at its core—and that's thought to be at the lower end in size for galactic supermassive black holes. The Milky Way's \"dark heart\" has been inferred from the motions of a number of stars in the galactic core, which have trajectories indicating that they are orbiting something quite massive (like, 4.3 million solar masses), yet unseen. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, observations are showing us that black holes may be quite common in the Universe. Data from satellite observatories like \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/news/wise20120829.html\" title=\"NASA WISE\" target=\"_blank\">NASA's WISE\u003c/a> spacecraft have shown the probable presence of millions of candidates. And soon we should be seeing the highest resolution X-ray results yet from NASA's recently launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/nustar/main/index.html\" title=\"NASA NuSTAR\" target=\"_blank\">NuSTAR \u003c/a>spacecraft. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And recently, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nao.ac.jp/E/release/2012/07/20/seeds-of-massive-black-holes-found-at-the-center-of-the-milky-way-galaxy.html\" title=\"Intermediate Mass Black Holes\" target=\"_blank\">evidence for the existence of the long-sought \"Intermediate Mass Black Hole\"\u003c/a> (the Jan Bradys of black holes, maybe?)—objects with masses in the range of thousands or tens of thousands of solar masses--has been acquired, shedding even more light on this family of objects—the Black Hole Bunch. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing we know with probable certainty: What happens in a black hole\u003c/p>\n\n",
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When astrophotographer \u003ca href=\"http://blog.deepskycolors.com/\">Rogelio Bernal Andreo\u003c/a> turns his gaze to the heavens, he holds up a virtual frame, imagining how the different objects present in the sky would combine to form a composition- planets, stars, galaxies and nebulae in relation to one another, rather than as the focal point of a photographic image, displayed front and center in all its wonder and glory. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43622\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/RBA_IC4592v_scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"RBA_IC4592v_scaled\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43622\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/RBA_IC4592v_scaled.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/RBA_IC4592v_scaled-400x263.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reflection nebula IC 4592 in the Scorpius constellation. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_43575\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/09/07/will-the-asteroid-apophis-rock-our-world/earth-and-asteroid/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43575\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-43575\" title=\"Earth and Near-Earth Asteroid--dramatization only\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/earth-and-asteroid.jpg\" alt=\"Earth and Near-Earth Asteroid--dramatization only\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/earth-and-asteroid.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/09/earth-and-asteroid-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earth and Near-Earth Asteroid--dramatization only\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The red phone on my desk went off again, flashing and beeping urgently. What was it this time? Another super-villain escaped from prison, threatening the safety of Oakland City again? I pick up the phone to find out. Ah, it was Apophis again, back in the public eye and causing concern for one of our citizens. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has been a dramatization. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Chabot Space & Science Center, I'm the one who answers the science help line, which is why I keep my cape and cowl close at hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ah, \u003ca title=\"Apophis on Bad Astronomy\" href=\"http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/01/31/repeat-after-me-apophis-is-not-a-danger/\" target=\"_blank\">Apophis\u003c/a>, that thousand-foot chuck of rock plotting to buzz the Earth. The citizen on the phone has called about Apophis before, so I figured it was time to back up my response with the word from a resident asteroid expert, Gerald, one of Chabot's asteroid tracking team—like Alfred passing the phone to Bruce. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerald's report on Apophis: After 3.8 years of observations, we project that Apophis will pass by (and miss) the Earth by about 23,600 miles on April 13 (yeah—Friday the 13th) 2029 (in case you want to plan a party). Then, Apophis will revisit the Earth's vicinity on April 13th (not a Friday) 2036. And here's the meat of the deal with Apophis: if its trajectory on the 2029 flyby is anywhere near what is predicted, then there is no chance at all that it will hit us in 2036. There is only a small chance that within the range of uncertainty the 2029 passage will aim Apophis for a 2036 impact with Earth--but the probability of that are calculated at less than 0.002%. That's roughly the same probability as drawing a straight flush right off the top of the deck (to you non-poker-players, the odds of that are about 72,000 to 1).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though astronomers are planning to observe Apophis next year using the giant radio telescope at Arecibo to give us a more refined impact probability for the 2036 passage (still 24 years out!), the consensus among scientists is that the refinement should further diffuse concerns, not raise them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know of about \u003ca title=\"Asteroid Risk Sentry Page\" href=\"http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/\" target=\"_blank\">1300 asteroids of significant size\u003c/a> that can pass close to Earth, and estimate there may be up to two or three times as many that we haven't spotted yet, but at this time there are no major threats projected to occur in the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013 there are two notable asteroid flybys of Earth. On February 15 a rock of the 200-foot size, called 2012 DA14, will cross our evening skies and pass within 17,760 miles of us, well within the fleet geosynchronous satellites that ring the Earth. It won't , repeat, won't hit us at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in 2013, a much bigger asteroid, called 2005 WK4, will pass by at a much greater distance. The object is somewhere between 950 and 1420 feet across, but will pass no closer than about 2 million miles, on August 9th. Again, there is zero chance that it will hit us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all of those rocks flying around that can cross Earth's orbit and therefore be a impact threat, what are the odds of one hitting us? Generally speaking, an object of the several hundred foot size hits Earth every few thousand years. In fact one did so in 1908, over Siberia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More sizeable objects, between 600 and 1600 feet across, strike us about every 100,000 years. And those really big ones, like the 6-mile diameter asteroid that struck the tip of the Yucatan 65 million years ago, the impact that is thought to have led to the demise of the dinosaurs, run into us about every 100 million years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are really steep odds if you're playing poker, but in this case that's a good thing. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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