Massive black hole enters the record books
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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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Evidence for an awesome upheaval in a massive galaxy cluster was discovered in an image made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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The film has made record-breaking box office collections.
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An unmanned experimental jet broke  a world record for speed on Tuesday by accelerating to about  7,000 miles per hour high over the Pacific Ocean in a NASA test  of cutting-edge engine technology.
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The universe has a huge hole in it that dwarfs anything else of its kind. The discovery caught astronomers by surprise.
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The explosive death of a massive star has broken the record for longest-lived light show. Observations from NASA's Swift satellite have revealed a so-called gamma-ray burst for which the afterglow remained visible for more than 125 days.
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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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It took 20 years from conception to today, but the world&#39;s most powerful telescope was finally dedicated. Though it won&#39;t be fully operational until next year, Friday&#39;s dedication a historic milestone.
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SPRINT TO RECORD: A NASA-backed supersonic combustion ramjet &#151; or scramjet &#151; flew on its on power for 10 seconds, setting a world speed record for an air-breathing engine.
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X-ray vision has brought astronomers closer than ever to completely characterizing a black hole, a place where strange things happen.
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Astronomers have found evidence for the most distant galaxies ever detected.
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In March, NASA (news - web sites) launched an experimental jet that reached a record-setting speed of about 5,000 mph. Now researchers want to leave that milestone in the dust.
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The most distant black hole ever found is nearly 13 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers announced today.
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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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EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, United States : A US hypersonic experimental scramjet, the X-43A, clocked up a test flight at a world record speed 10 times faster than sound, NASA said.
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A tiny unmanned Nasa &quot;scramjet&quot; set a new world speed record after flying at nearly 10 times the speed of sound. The 12ft supersonic combustion ramjet flew at just under 7,000mph - or around Mach 9.6.
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A HYPERSONIC jet fuelled by Australian technology has smashed the world speed record reaching 10 times the speed of sound at 11,265km/h.