Swift roars to record the &quot;birth cries&quot; of black holes
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Nasa&#39;s fastest-swivelling space probe ever built -- Swift -- roared into the orbit aiming to explore the violent celestial explosions which may bestow black holes the birth cries.
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Scientists believe they have tracked down the origin of a low-frequency "hum" that emanates from the Earth.
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NEW YORK  &#151; The eruption heard across the country Sunday night at 10:03 p.m. EDT: Collective exclamations of "What?" "Are you kidding me?" and " $&amp;!?"
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Swift successfully launched today at 12:16 PM EST! Spacecraft separation occurred at about 80 minutes after launch as expected. Congratulations to the entire Swift team.
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The fastest-swiveling space science observatory ever built rocketed into orbit yesterday to scan the universe for violent celestial explosions that astronomers say they believe represent the birth screams of black holes.
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SPACE.com / A new census compiled by astronomers contains the location of every local galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center.
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The Swift space telescope sees its first gamma ray bursts - the massive cosmic explosions it was built to study.
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Nasa launches the Swift observatory to study gamma-ray bursts - the biggest explosions since the Big Bang.
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A powerful jet of particles from a supermassive black hole is seen blasting a nearby galaxy.
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U2âs big publicity wheel keeps on turninâ. With their much-hyped new album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb finally out today, the months of press and attention-grabbing stunts are coming to a head.
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The latest act of senseless violence caught on tape is cosmic in scope: A black hole in a "death star galaxy" blasting a neighboring galaxy with a deadly jet of radiation and energy.
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Hundreds of people called emergency services to report a sonic boom Tuesday that scientists said was probably caused by a small meteor.
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NASA launched a $250 million quick-response satellite today to study enigmatic gamma ray flashes from brief-but-titanic deep space explosions that may be the &quot;death
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NASA on Monday will attempt to set an air speed record when it launches its pilot-less X-43A &quot;scramjet.&quot;. Paul Allen was first.
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British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking revealed his desire on Monday to make &quot;real science as exciting as science fiction&quot; as he publicised a new book for children about the cosmos.
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The Guinness Book of Records has officially recognised the world speed record set by Nasa&#39;s X-43A hypersonic aircraft earlier this year.
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A swirling space observatory has been launched to scan the universe for explosions that some believe are the birth of black holes.