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A black hole of good news – bad news

Funnybone: March 4, 2010
Tucson, Arizona – Astronomers at the University of Arizona have dubbed a new observation – the “chaos cloud.” Discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope on March 1, the swirling, 10 million kilometer wide cosmic cloud has been likened to nothing ever seen before. Although measurements are preliminary, astronomers said the cloud would sweep through Earth [...]
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Formation of super black holes – a new model

News: Cosmology    November 26, 2009
As astronomers and cosmologists attempt to piece together the formation of the universe, some of the pieces are truly immense. For example, supermassive black holes, which are believed to be associated with nearly every large galaxy, are billions of times larger than the sun. A new model connects the supermassive black holes to equally massive [...]
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