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  • Smile please, a black hole will be on candid camera


    CaroLINES — Authority Authority: 121
    Astronomers are, apparently, going to try and photograph a Black Hole . A specific black hole - the one at the center of the galaxy. (I wonder if itll get its own Facebook photo album? Would it exist if it doesnt..? :-) ) But one bit of the article didnt make sense: [...] General relativity predicts that the swirl ...
    1 week ago

  • Black hole jets


    OK4me2 — Authority Authority: 124
    Jets emitted from the accretion disk around a black hole that has an orbiting companion star (an artists conception). New research is consistent with the idea that the spin of the black hole powers the jets via magnetic fields in the disk   Enlarge (PhysOrg.com) — Black holes are irresistible sinks for matter ...
    1 week ago

  • Man Vanishes In 1876 – Reappears In 1950


    Ghost Theory — Authority Authority: 460
    Rudolf Fenz, Senior Lon over at Phantoms & Monsters found an interesting story about an alleged time traveler. I found it to be so intriguing that I decided to throw it up for our readers. So amazing is this story that even the NYPD could find no other logical resolution to explain the strange and baffling ...
    1 week ago

  • First-Ever Image of a Black Hole to be Captured by Earth-Sized Scope


    Universe Today — Authority Authority: 655
    Spitzer telescope view of the galactic center. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Stolovy) “Sgr A* is the right object, VLBI is the right technique, and this decade is the right time.” So states the mission page of the Event Horizon Telescope , an international endeavor that will combine the capabilities of over 50 radio ...
    1 week ago

  • A busy 2012 on tap for Boulder, Broomfield counties


    Paternal Prose — Authority Authority: 146
    If the oft-disputed notion that the world will come to an apocalyptic end on Dec. 21 comes true, this story will stand as the Camera’s last annual preview for Boulder and Broomfield counties. so grab a warm mug, curl up with your paper, laptop or iPad and enjoy a look ahead at the next 355 days of 2012 before ...
    1 week ago

  • To The Extreme… NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope Gathers In High Energy


    Universe Today — Authority Authority: 655
    This all-sky Fermi view includes only sources with energies greater than 10 GeV. From some of these sources, Fermis LAT detects only one gamma-ray photon every four months. Brighter colors indicate brighter gamma-ray sources. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration It scans the entire visible sky every three ...
    1 week ago

  • Does Starburst Activity Starve Galaxies of Gas?


    Universe Today — Authority Authority: 655
    The Southern Cross, the Milky Way, and the Large Magellanic Cloud shine above the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) as it observes on a clear night sky during its Early Science phase. Image credit: C. Padilla, NRAO/AUI/NSF Using the partially constructed ALMA observatory, a group of astronomers ...
    1 week ago

  • Radio telescopes to try taking first photo of black hole


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 534
    London, Jan 16 (IANS) A radio telescope project that would connect up to 50 telescopes scattered around the globe could help photograph a black hole for the first time, scientists have said.The radio telescopes would include those on the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii and also a dish at the South Pole, the [...]
    1 week ago

  • Astronomer Honored by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and S...


    Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority Authority: 137
    In recognition of his discoveries regarding the formation of black holes and galaxies, astronomer Karl Gebhardt will receive the 2012 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Science from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST). read more
    2 weeks ago

  • Astronomer Honored by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas


    News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority Authority: 456
    In recognition of his discoveries regarding the formation of black holes and galaxies, astronomer Karl Gebhardt will receive the 2012 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Science from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST). Karl Gebhardt The ODonnell Award honors outstanding ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Woman Claims To Be From A Parallel Universe


    Ghost Theory — Authority Authority: 460
    We’ve all heard of alternate dimensions and universes . Many believe we are just a frequency away from an alternate existence . Still others claim that beings from other dimensions pop in and out of our world at will, somewhat like The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy . Now a story comes to us out of Spain about ...
    2 weeks ago

  • How black holes fire gas jets into space


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 534
    Sydney, Jan 12 (IANS) Scientists are a step closer to figuring out how black holes can fire superfast gas bullets into space, by determining the precise moment when they form, a study reveals.James Miller-Jones, principal investigator in Curtin University International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), and ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Dodging Black Hole Bullets


    Universe Today — Authority Authority: 655
    This 327-MHz radio view of the center of our galaxy highlights the position of the black hole system H1743-322, as well as other features. (Credit: J. Miller-Jones, ICRAR-Curtin Univ.; C. Brogan, NRAO) In mid-2009 a binary star system cataloged as H H1743–322 shot off something very unusual. Poised about 28,000 ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Stephen Hawkings 70th birthday celebrations - live updates


    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 962
    Hawking joins fellow scientists in Cambridge to deliver lectures marking his 70th birthday 2.21pm: Im not to give blow-by-blow accounts of every part of the the speeches, mainly because you can follow them live on the web feed, or via Twitter. Alok Jha, for example, has already sent the above tweets about Reess ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Hawking turns 70 with talk on space and time


    Washington Examiner - Columns — Authority Authority: 124
    The Associated Press The Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, England Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is celebrating his 70th birthday in typically ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Stephen Hawking turns 70


    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 962
    Scientist Stephen Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, to deliver rare public lecture in Cambridge The worlds most famous living scientists turns 70 today. Professor Stephen Hawking has defied medical expectations, since being diagnosed with a form of motor neurone disease at the age of 21 and given ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease


    Washington Examiner — Authority Authority: 685
    MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer CAMBRIDGE, England British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe ...
    3 weeks ago

  • If You Like Percy Jackson, try Noah Zarc. Time Travel Action Adventure Series (and the Physics of Time Travel)


    Pragmatic Mom — Authority Authority: 110
    Noah Zarc: Mammoth Trouble by  D. Robert Pease  Time can’t exist without space, and space can’t exist without time. The two exist as one: the  space-time continuum . Any event that occurs in the universe has to involve both space and time. If you could travel on a beam of light,  time slows ...
    3 weeks ago

  • An Introduction to the Quantum World


    Create and Share - Creating a kinder world — Authority Authority: 111
    If successful scientific theories can be thought of as cures for stubborn problems, quantum physics was the wonder drug of the 20 th  century. It successfully explained phenomena such as  radioactivity  and  antimatter , and no other theory can match its description of how light and particles behave on small ...
    3 weeks ago

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