Roberto Soria – The Conversation

A recently discovered black hole – found by the way it makes a nearby star wobble – is hard to square with our understanding of how these dark cosmic objects form. NAOC, Chinese Academy of Sciences

November 27, 2019

A surprisingly big black hole might have swallowed a star from the inside out, and scientists are baffled

Roberto Soria, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Astronomers using a new technique to hunt black holes found one 70 times as heavy as the Sun

Hubble fireworks.

April 23, 2015

Hubble in pictures: astronomers’ top picks

Tanya Hill, Museums Victoria Research Institute; Alan Duffy, Swinburne University of Technology; Chris Tinney, UNSW ; Fred Watson, Australian Astronomical Observatory; Geraint Lewis, University of Sydney; Howard E Bond, Penn State; James Bullock, University of California, Irvine; Jane Charlton, Penn State; John Clarke, Boston University; Kim-Vy Tran, Texas A&M University; Lucas Macri, Texas A&M University; Michael Drinkwater, The University of Queensland; Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University; Mike Eracleous, Penn State; Philip Kaaret, University of Iowa; Rachel Webster, The University of Melbourne; Roberto Soria, Curtin University, and William Kurth, University of Iowa

Astronomers from around the world identify their favourite images sent back to Earth by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Artist’s impression of a microquasar, such as the newly-discovered MQ1 in the M83 galaxy. TD Russell (ICRAR-Curtin) using the BINSIM visualisation code by R Hynes (LSU)

February 27, 2014

Pocket rocket of the universe: a new ‘fast and furious’ black hole

Roberto Soria, Curtin University

A black hole with extremely powerful jets has been found in the nearby galaxy Messier 83 (M83) by a team of Australian and American researchers, as we report in the journal Science today. Black holes are…