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We’re Going To See A Black Hole!
The idea of black holes has gone from a curious thought experiment to a theoretical likelihood to anear-certainty -- with thousands of known candidates -- in a very short time. But never before have we
Read More »Infinity Symbol Found In Milky Way Center, Bizarre Twisted Ribbon Of Gas
New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory show a bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Only a few portions of the ring, which stretches across more
Read More »Ten New Planets Discovered, One Orbiting Baby Star
A total of 10 new planets have been unearthed by an international team of scientists, and one of these is orbiting a star just a few tens of millions years old. Using the CoRoT (Convection,
Read More »Video: The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
How big can they get? What's the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide
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