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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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Astronomers teaming 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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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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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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The moment a princess became a queen
How Elizabeth became queen in a treehouse in Kenya
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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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Japan’s surprising geisha revival
SHIMODA, Japan — With a few hesitant steps and the swoosh of kimono against a tatami-mat floor, it isn't long before Awagiku finds her rhythm, moving with what comes close to perfection by the end of another exhausting practice session. But Awagiku can be forgiven the occasional loss of timing. She is one of three young women who are just months into their careers as aspiring geisha. There is a ...
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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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