Tag: accretion disks

• The case of the missing black holes

  No question: supermassive black holes get a lot of the glory, thanks to their obvious presence at the centers of many galaxies. However, stars more than 20 times the mass of our Sun leave behind smaller, stellar-mass black holes after their violent supernova deaths. Despite this model’s wide acceptance, astronomers have only identified about 50…

  Matthew R. Francis

  March 1, 2013

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  accretion disks, black holes, X-ray astronomy