NASA Launches Black Hole Hunter
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The fastest-swiveling space science observatory ever built rocketed into orbit Saturday to scan the universe for violent celestial explosions that astronomers believe represent the birth screams of black holes.
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Holy belching quasars, Batman NASA astronomers think they have identified a pair of supermassive black holes, or quasars, that look like they are teetering on the brink of huge explosions.â¦
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IndigoSkies writes &quot;NASA today successfully launched the Swift Observatory into Earth orbit for an intense two year study of GRBs (gamma-ray bursts) to determine whether there is a connection between them and the evolution of black holes.
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The fastest-swivelling space science observatory ever built rocketed into orbit on Saturday to scan the universe for violent celestial explosions.
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An unmanned NASA jet was launched over the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday in a bid to demonstrate a radical new engine technology by flying at a world-record 7,000 mph - almost 10 times the speed of sound.
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WASHINGTON -- NASA has created a new office to study in more detail some of the universe's most exotic phenomena: dark energy, black holes and cosmic microwave background radiation.
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By Rasha Madkour Associated Press  HOUSTON -- The orbiting Discovery crew started the meticulous inspection of the shuttle's heat shield on Sunday, looking for any possible damage from liftoff.
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The latest launch, set for Friday, brings misty-eyed NASA engineers one step closer to the end of a flight program that's endured for 26 years.
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Astronomers have found the biggest stellar black hole so far, a monster with a mass 15.65 times that of our Sun, lurking in a nearby spiral-shaped galaxy.
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A NASA spacecraft has begun the first-ever daily tracking of how air pollution moves across the globe, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Wednesday.
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A NASA spacecraft lifted off on Wednesday on the first leg of a six-month journey to blast a hole in a comet and study what lies beneath.
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A new space observatory was rocketing into orbit yesterday preparing to scan the universe for the most violent celestial explosions since the Big Bang.
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A NASA experiment that could help shape the future of space exploration as part of a new generation of potentially life-saving space crafts has launched
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The shuttle Discovery crew spent their first day in space on Sunday scouting their ship for heat shield damage that might have occurred during their launch in darkness on Saturday night, the first night-time liftoff since the 2003 Columbia accident.
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NASA launched a 24-hour global pollution monitoring service yesterday that will eventually allow scientists to give daily âchemical forecastsâ from space.
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A car-sized NASA probe zoomed about  126 miles above the rocky, crater-scarred surface of Mercury on  Monday, becoming the first spacecraft since 1975 to fly past  the closest planet to the sun.
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The US space agency Nasa announces details of a mission to give the Hubble space telescope a major boost.