Watch a giant black hole tear a star apart

Edit Business Insider 02 Feb 2015
See Also. A telescope peers into the blackness of deep space. Suddenly – a brilliant flash of light appears that wasn’t there before ... Five years ago, researchers using the ROTSE IIIb telescope at McDonald Observatory noticed just such an event ... Astronomers at McDonald had been using the telescope to scan the skies for such nascent flashes for years, as part of the ROTSE Supernova Verification Project (SNVP) ... That left only one option ... J ... .....

Astronomers See a Massive Black Hole Tear a Star Apart

Edit Universe Today 28 Jan 2015
A telescope peers into the blackness of deep space. Suddenly – a brilliant�flash of light appears that wasn’t there before. What could it be? A supernova? Two�massively dense stars fusing�together? Perhaps a gamma ray burst? Five years ago, researchers using the ROTSE IIIb telescope at McDonald Observatory noticed just such an event. But far from […]> ....

Ga West Residents Educated On Cholera Prevention

Edit Peace FM Online 09 Sep 2014
Briefing the Ghana News Agency at Pokuase, near Amasaman in the Greater Accra Region, Ms Rotse Haruna, a health campaigner, who led in the education programme, ......

Light from star explosion 12 bn years ago detected

Edit Newstrack India 05 Jun 2014
Tweet ... Known as a gamma-ray burst, light from the rare, high-energy explosion travelled for 12.1 billion years before it was detected and observed by a telescope Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE) IIIb ... At the time of this gamma-ray burst's explosion, the universe looked vastly different than it does now ... ) .. ).. Comments. ... . . . . . .. . . .. ....
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