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A different kind of lens for time

News: Cosmology    March 3, 2010
In the sense that a lens refracts (bends) light, you could say that using galaxies as a lens is reasonable – if the scale of measurement is nothing less than the age of the universe. It never hurts to have confirmation (in science and a lot of other things). While we know from various studies [...]
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Hubble on the bubble

News: Scientific Instruments    January 6, 2010
What do you call it when the best of what you’ve got now really makes you want the better thing that’s coming? Technological progress. This seem to be the case with the Hubble Space Telescope, which after its latest retrofitting is beginning to produce new and better results. Just now the various Hubble teams are [...]
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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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