Black Holes Have Simple Feeding Habits

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 13:28 in Astronomy & Space

The biggest black holes may feed just like the smallest ones, according to data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based telescopes. This discovery supports the implication of Einstein's relativity theory that black holes of all sizes have similar properties, and will be useful for predicting the properties of a conjectured new class of black holes.

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