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The groundbreaking plan to photograph a black hole
Scientists want to build an enormous "virtual telescope" capable of taking a picture of a massive black hole 26,000 light years away
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Astronomers team up to get a picture of a black hole
It’s time for a black hole to shine.
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Middleweight Black Holes: Clues to the Universe's Evolution (preview)
Astronomers have known for some 10 years that nearly every large galaxy contains at its core an immense black hole--an object having such intense gravity that even light cannot escape. The death of stars can produce small black holes--with masses ranging from about three to 100 times the mass of the sun--but such stellar-mass black holes are tiny compared with the behemoths at the centers of ...
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The Life of the Cyberflâneur
Is the iconic 19th-century Parisian wanderer alive and well on the Internet? Look no further than the depths of Tumblr, YouTube, and Wikipedia for your answer. A modern Parisian wanderer captured by Google ...
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Astronomers Catch Black Hole Spitting Out Material
Jet "bullets" emanating from the region around a black hole. Credit: NRAO, GSFC/NASA AUSTIN, Tex. One of the great ironies of the universe is that black holes, the ultimate vacuum cleaners, create more of a mess than they clean up. (It is a complaint that many people who finally prevailed on spouses and roommates to clean up after themselves might appreciate.) How is it that, in sucking up ...
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Magical Minds | Out of nowhere superhero film surprises, Harry Potter graduates to an older school
I hate when a gimmick gets in the way of a perfectly good movie. In the case of Chronicle, it's the "found footage" gag. While it's kind of neat, the somewhat imaginative ways in which the story of Chronicle gets around a few limitations of the gimmick -- telekinetic kids don't need an extra cameram... By Joe O'Shansky.
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The moment a princess became a queen
How Elizabeth became queen in a treehouse in Kenya
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Man admitted shooting Jennifer Heckel, woman testifies
A 39-year-old woman says that one of the men charged with murder in the death of Jennifer Heckel adm ...
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How star forming galaxies starve to death
Washington, Jan 12 (ANI): Young and active galaxies evolve into 'red and dead' elliptical galaxies as their central super massive black holes and their jets starve them of their star-forming gas, a new study has revealed.
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Wedgwood Museum closure condemned by Unesco
Museum listed as one of UK's top 20 cultural assets due to be sold off to pay £134m pension deficit after high court ruling The head of a Unesco committee that shortlisted a British museum as one of the UK's top 20 cultural assets has condemned a high court judgment that is forcing it to close. The Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent is to be broken up and sold to pay off a £134m pension deficit ...
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