The Black Hole of Los Alamos
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Meet Ed Grothus: pacifist, recycler of nuclear waste, author of a post-apocalyptic Rosetta Stone and the man who once sent Bill Clinton a
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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.
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News from the galactic centre Astronomers using ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory have spotted a massive eruption of gamma rays in the galactic centre. The researchers say the characteristics of the flare indicate that it could be an extremely rare star-black hole binary system, exhibiting behaviour that might only be seen once or twice in a decade.â¦
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The largest explosion ever seen in space reveals black holes to be more influential    than expected, perhaps sometimes stifling star formation in a galaxy while    gobbling up trillions upon trillions of tons of gas.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) launched a space observatory named Swift last week to scan the universe for violent celestial explosions that astronomers believe represent the birth screams of black holes.
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The massive cosmic assault of a black hole blasting an immense jet of energy and radiation into a nearby galaxy has been observed by astronomers for the first time, NASA announced Monday.
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"It's like a bully, a black-hole bully punching the nose of a passing galaxy"  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. via Freerepublic.com
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It's "all systems go" for one of the most ambitious physics experiments ever attempted. After more than 40 years of methodical planning and four months of intense troubleshooting, NASA's Gravity Probe B spacecraft has begun its search for a bizarre prediction of Einstein's relativity.
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The "supermassive" black holes at the centres of most galaxies could be spinning at a dizzying rate, scientists say.
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A decade-long mystery has been solved using data from ESA's X-ray observatory XMM-Newton.
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An international team of astronomers has succeeded in solving the 100 year-old mystery about the origin of the cosmic rays by producing the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays.
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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed an X-ray jet blasting away from a neutron star in a binary system. This discovery may help astronomers understand how neutron stars as well as black holes can generate powerful beams of relativistic particles.
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Boffins go back to the drawing board Researchers have located the most massive stellar black hole ever discovered, just three million light-years away in a nearby galaxy. The stellar remnant is in a binary system known as M33, orbiting a huge companion star. The researchers say the find is "intriguing", because of what it suggests about stellar evolution.â¦
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An eruption of high-energy radiation recently signaled a tantrum unleashed by a black hole, astronomers announced today.
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A Finnish team describes a black hole that is a record 18 billion times more massive than our own Sun.
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Take a photo tour of mankind's most ambitious physics experiment ever.
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To explore deeper into our solar system, maximum efficiencies may one day be extracted from sound waves. Los Alamos scientists have engine plans drawn up for making a big bang to push a pistonless drive forward.