Welcome to our archive of past news articles.
You will find previous articles listed below from most the recent back to our first articles in 1996.

	NASA's Swift Satellite Discovers a New Black Hole in our Galaxy [11 October 2012] - NASA's Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The outburst, produced by a rare X-ray nova, announced the presence of a previously unknown stellar-mass black hole.
	X-ray 'Echoes' Map a Supermassive Black Hole's Environs [07 June 2012] - An international team of astronomers using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton satellite has identified a long-sought X-ray "echo" that promises a new way to probe supersized black holes in distant galaxies.