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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 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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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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Astronomers teaming up to get a picture of a black hole
It's time for a black hole to shine.
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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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Soul Train fans bop on Broadway in Cornelius fete
Fans of "Soul Train" boogied down Broadway wearing afro wigs and bell bottoms on Saturday while others recounted their favorite episodes at a Harlem meeting hall in tribute to the TV show's late creator, Don Cornelius.
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Soul Train devotees groove down Broadway as friends, fans honour show creator Don Cornelius
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Fans of "Soul Train" boogied down Broadway wearing afro wigs and bell bottoms on Saturday while others recounted their favourite episodes at a Harlem meeting hall in tribute to the TV show's late creator, Don Cornelius.
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Yoani Sanchez: Wilman Villar Mendoza: The Death of a Dissident
From the hole in the floor that serves as a toilet, a rat emerges and looks curiously at the curled up man lying there. Outside shouts are heard, metal banging, and the general noise of the Aguadores prison, one of the most feared in eastern Cuba.
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The moment a princess became a queen
How Elizabeth became queen in a treehouse in Kenya
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Why Carmelo Anthony Must Stop Being a Black Hole on New York Knicks Offense
Prior to last night's thumping of the Charlotte Bobcats , it's been a rough go of things for Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks . Yet, in what may have been the Knicks' best offensive performance of the season, Anthony was held to a career-low one point. It's true that he vowed to pass more and he did that last night, but don't expect the Knicks to have that type of success without Anthony ...
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