MSNBC article about letter to Nature linking black hole growth and galaxy formation

Scientists learn how a black hole stops itself. The energy created when black holes merge contributes to star formation while blowing gas to the outskirts of a galaxy, and this creates a limit as to how much the black hole can consume, a new computer simulation shows.

Astrophysicists led by a core of Pittsburgh researchers yesterday said they have found new evidence for "dark energy," the mysterious, repulsive force that appears to be speeding up the expansion of the universe.

New York Times article about the WMAP/SDSS ISM paper: Physical Evidence for Dark Energy

National Public Radio covers the Viper results via a satellite link to ACBAR PI at the South Pole. Various other stories related to the ACBAR results can be found by clicking on the ACBAR link on the main cmu-astro.org webpage.

Nov 2001: Pittsburgh Post Gazette: New 'virtual observatory'...

Data mining: New 'virtual observatory' will let astronomers sift through galaxies of data

Nov 2001: CMU News: NSF Grants CMU Faculty More Than $24 Million...

NSF grants CMU faculty more than $24 million to help fund research in information technology, including $3.4 million for statistical data mining for cosmology.

May 2001: Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Imprints of wave patterns support Big Bang theory

In a spurt of cosmological serendipity that has played out over the past four weeks, independent teams of astrophysicists have produced the equivalent of "before" and "after" snapshots of the universe.

Feb 2001: Pittsburgh Post Gazette: CMU gets $250,000 from state for telescope

Finding black holes in space has proven easier for Carnegie Mellon University scientists than raising money to build a giant telescope in South Africa. But after more than two years of work, they have secured their first commitment: a $250,000 grant from the state of Pennsylvania

Aug 2000: Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Squeezed on the scopes

CMU and Pitt astronomers try to avoid being pushed aside

Jan 2000: Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Peeking at a galaxy far, far away

Star births and deaths proceed with the relative calm of campfire embers in the Milky Way, but NASA's new Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that these events are more akin to exploding fireworks in galaxies known to have a high rate of star formation.

Dec 1999: Pittsburgh Post Gazette: New space telescope has a big appetite for X-rays

New space telescope has a big appetite for X-rays Monday, December 06, 1999 By Byron Spice, Science Editor, Post-Gazette X-ray astronomy, a field made possible with the advent of spacecraft, may be entering its golden age.

May 1999: Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Universal spectacle

To the delight of astronomers, galaxies that bend light are popping up all over

Astronomers from Carnegie Mellon University and NASA have independently found evidence of a new class of black holes - far smaller than the supermassive black holes found in quasars, but larger than the stellar black holes only a few times more massive than our Sun.

Early results from a telescope that has spent the past year peering through the cold, dry air of the South Pole at the earliest visible remnants of the Big Bang suggest the universe will expand forever and never collapse.

CMU scientists head project to sort and analyze data spilling from digital telescopes

Using the Hubble and other devices, astronomers hope to nail down the precise distance and mass of the farthest-off [galaxy] clusters

Carnegie Mellon University astrophysicists say the makers of the film Godzilla had it right: Size does matter. That's why they are raising $6 million to help build one of the world's largest telescopes.

Scientists disagree about whether the universe will continue to expand into infinity or someday reverse its course