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XMM-Newton Discovers A New Class Of Black Holes Paris, France (ESA) Jul 03, 2009 
Astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory have discovered a black hole weighing more than 500 solar masses, a missing link between lighter stellar-mass and heavier supermassive black holes, in a distant galaxy. This discovery is the best detection to date of a new class that has long been searched for: intermediate mass black holes. Due to appear tomorrow in the journal Nature, ... read moreNew class of black hole could explain cosmic leviathans 
Paris (AFP) July 1, 2009Astronomers on Wednesday said they had identified an intermediate class of black hole that could explain how supermassive, light-sucking monsters develop in the heart of galaxies. Their find - a black hole more than 500 times the mass of the Sun, on the fringe of galaxy ESO 243-249 - is reported in the latest issue of Nature, the British-based science journal. In terms of size, it lies ... more
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MMS Mission Enters Implementation Phase
San Antonio TX (SPX) Jun 22, 2009Southwest Research Institute has received confirmation from NASA Headquarters that the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) misson has been approved to begin its implementation phase. MMS will perform a definitive investigation of one of the most basic and important physical processes in the universe - magnetic reconnection. The mission is scheduled to launch in August 2014. Magnetic ... more Black Holes Take Center Stage 
Bloomington IN (SPX) Jun 15, 2009Black holes are a common topic for scientific discussion today - but to the astrophysicists, theoretical physicists and mathematicians attending Indiana University's Capra Conference on radiation reaction, predictions still outweigh proof when it comes to black holes and their interstellar antics. Hosted by IU for the first time in the event's 12-year history, the Capra Conference each ... more Black hole more massive than imagined: study
Washington (AFP) June 9, 2009A pair of pioneering astronomers revealed Tuesday how they used a supercomputer to show that a nearby black hole is vastly more massive than scientists ever imagined. The black hole at the heart of the relatively close Messier 87 Galaxy (M87) weighs in at 6.4 billion times the mass of our Sun, according to US astrophysicist Karl Gebhardt and Germany's Jens Thomas, who say it's the largest ... more Texas-Size Computer Finds Most Massive Black Hole In Galaxy M87 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2009Astronomers Karl Gebhardt (The University of Texas at Austin) and Jens Thomas (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) have used new computer modeling techniques to discover that the black hole at the heart of M87, one the largest nearby giant galaxies, is two to three times more massive than previously thought. Weighing in at 6.4 billion times the Sun's mass, it is the most ... more |
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Planck Satellite Ready To Measure The Big Bang
Garching, Germany (SPX) May 14, 2009The last tests of the Ariane 5 rocket system have been finished, and ESA's Planck satellite is sitting ready for launch at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. Together with ESA's Space Telescope Herschel, Planck will start into space on 14 May to begin its studies of the cosmic microwave radiation and of the clues it gives about the Big Bang, the earliest phases of the cosmic history, and ... more Telescopes to probe the dawn of time 
Paris (AFP) May 12, 2009Visiting the future may remain a sci-fi fantasy, but on Thursday a rocket is set to hoist aloft two European spacecraft designed to probe the distant past... all the way back to the origins of the Universe some 14 billion years ago. With a combined cost of 1.6 billion euros (2.17 billion dollars), the Herschel and Planck telescopes represent Europe's greatest-ever investment in orbital astro ... more Study Plunges Standard Theory Of Cosmology Into Crisis 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2009As modern cosmologists rely more and more on the ominous "dark matter" to explain otherwise inexplicable observations, much effort has gone into the detection of this mysterious substance in the last two decades, yet no direct proof could be found that it actually exists. Even if it does exist, dark matter would be unable to reconcile all the current discrepancies between actual measuremen ... more Lessons From Schon - The Worst Physics Fraudster 
Washington DC (SPX) May 08, 2009How did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known? From claims to have made the world's first organic electrical laser to the fictional construction of the smallest ever transistor, the repercussions of Jan Hendrik Schon's fraud are still felt today, seven years after he was found guilty of scientif ... more |
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