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Do Black Holes Help Stars Form?
The center of just about every galaxy is thought to host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around them.
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How black holes fire gas jets into space
Sydney, Jan 12 (IANS) Scientists are a step closer to figuring out how black holes can fire superfast gas bullets into space, by determining the precise moment when they form, a study reveals.
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Scientists Aim To Directly View A Black Hole
So far, astronomers haven't been able to directly see a black hole. Since light can't escape them, they're difficult to detect in the first place, and our knowledge of how black holes work relies mainly on X-ray telescopes to view particle emissions or observations of areas around black holes.
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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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Emerging Supermassive Black Holes Choke Star Formation
Located on the Chajnantor plateau in the foothills of the Chilean Andes, ESO’s APEX telescope has been busy looking into deep, deep space. Recently a group of astronomers released their findings regarding massive galaxies in connection with extreme times of star formation in the early Universe. What they found was a sharp cut-off point in [...]
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Early supermassive black holes could grow it alone
Simulation shows cold gas boosts growth
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Mystery and Zero Skate Deck Giveaway Has Infinite Possibilities
On February 6, 2012, Black Box Distribution announced that the staff would be holding a contest each day for the next nine days. What's the prize you may ask? It's a non-skateable Zero or Mystery skate deck. The skate decks were once part of the company's display wall...
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Future Studies Will Extend Census of Middleweight Black Holes
Editor's note: In her article, " Goldilocks Black Holes ," Jenny E. Greene discusses the search for black holes with masses ranging from roughly 1,000 suns to a million suns--middleweights on the cosmic scale. These intermediate-mass holes may provide clues about the origins of galaxies and the supermassive black holes (millions to billions of suns in mass) found at galaxy centers. Astronomers ...
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Blowing Up Stars
The Crab Nebula is the aftermath of a supernova observed by Arab, Chinese and Japanese astronomers in 1054 A.D. Located about 6,500 light years from Earth, the nebula spans 11 light years. Still spinning at its center is what is left of the star: an ultra-dense neutron star. (Photo: NASA).
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Cultural Politics and the Jazz Discourse, or Mama Said Knock You Out
Jazz, an art form given birth in the United States by descendents of the formerly enslaved, has a complicated relationship with race. Although race, as a popular idea, has no basis in biology, many people mentally adhere to the idea of dividing groups of people based on "race" as opposed to understanding how groups of people evolve (or regress) via culture, so very real social dynamics and ...
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