New Twist to Black Hole Mystery
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Professor Sam Braunstein, of the University of
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A recent article in New Scientist magazine, entitled â Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away,â implies that the UC Berkeley SETI@home project has uncovered a very convincing candidate
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Some black holes may not be black at all, but "naked singularities."
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For the first time astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole blasting its galactic neighbor with a deadly beam of energy.
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The information gathered by the probe during its close pass could finally help solve some long-standing mysteries about this unusual world.
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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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Astronomers use the Hubble telescope to reveal the effects of unseen dark matter as it tugs on galaxies in a crowded supercluster.
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named Swift for its fast pivoting and pointing -- launched this weekend will detect and analyze gamma ray bursts, which astronomers believe represent the birth cries of black holes.
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The U.S. space agency has created a new office to study more closely cosmic phenomena such as dark energy and black holes.
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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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How many live at home, are practising Jedis, etc Russian astronomers have begun work that will allow them to work out how many black holes there are in the Universe.â¦
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Nasa's Spitzer telescope shows bulky black holes lurk where they are least expected - in skinny galaxies.
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Scientists are puzzled, but the phenomenon seems to fit the latest global-warming models.
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When scientists are looking into space, the more they can see, the easier it is to piece together the puzzle of the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope's mirror blanks have now been constructed.
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Astronomers have found a new class of objects in space: a neutron star orbiting inside a cocoon of cold gas and/or dust that hides a bloated supergiant star.
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Cambridge, MA -- Astronomers are hunting an elusive target: rogue black holes that have been ejected from the centers of their home galaxies. Some doubted that the quarry could be spotted, since a black hole must be gobbling matter from an accretion disk in order for that matter to shine.