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A New Way To Weigh Giant Black Holes Monday, July 21, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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Working out the mass of huge black holes, like the ones hiding in the center of galactic nuclei, is no easy task and attempts are being made to find novel ways to weigh them. Using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, two scientists have confirmed a theory they conceived ten years ago, that the supermassive black holes in the center of galaxies strongly influence the nature of the gases surrounding them. (source: chandra.harvard.edu)
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