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Our Very Own Black Hole
The Milky Way is a vast spiral, similar to our neighbor the Andromeda galaxy. Read More »
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Vincent Rodgers
When Vincent Rodgers was six years old, he and his twin brother Victor got toy robots for Christmas. "The most fascinating thing about this," Rodgers recalls, “was a panel you could take off the side [so] you could actually see inside." Read More »
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Black Hole Thursdays.
Astronomers have for the first time developed a technique to view rapidly spinning disks of gas found near black holes.Their observations allowed them to confirm the that the electromagnetic spectra of these accretion disks match what astronomers have long predicted, giving a boost of hard evidence to current quasar formation theory.The team of researchers gazed into the night on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, looking through the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope. They were able to measure the spectrum of.. Read more »
