http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 21 May 2013 18:07:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/12/14/astronomers-find-gas-cloud-being-torn-apart-by-milkey-ways-black-hole/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/12/14/astronomers-find-gas-cloud-being-torn-apart-by-milkey-ways-black-hole/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:00:53 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=19199 Astronomers led by UC Berkeley's Reinhard Genzel, also of the Max Planck Institute in Germany, have observed a cloud of gas several times the mass of Earth approaching the 4.3 million solar-mass black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Theorist Eliot Quataert calculates that the cloud will not survive the encounter, but will be heated and shredded in 2013.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/12/14/astronomers-find-gas-cloud-being-torn-apart-by-milkey-ways-black-hole/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/01/13/new-technique-could-pinpoint-galaxy-x/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/01/13/new-technique-could-pinpoint-galaxy-x/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:00:07 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=4328 Post-doctoral fellow Sukanya Chakrabarti and astronomy professor Leo Blitz have developed a method to search for satellite galaxies that are too "dark" to see, and have predicted that the Milky Way has a companion dwarf galaxy not yet discovered.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/01/13/new-technique-could-pinpoint-galaxy-x/feed/ 0