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'Iron-Clad' Evidence For Spinning Black Hole
September 18, 2003 — Telltale X-rays from iron may reveal if black holes are spinning or not, according to astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton ... > full story -
Was The Universe Born In A Black Hole?
September 17, 2003 — The universe may have been created by an explosion within a black hole, according to a new theory by two mathematicians recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ... > full story -
NASA'S Chandra X-Ray Observatory Marks Four Years Of Discovery Firsts
September 16, 2003 — Launched in 1999, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory promised to be one of the world's most powerful tools to better understand the structure and evolution of the universe -- and it has lived ... > full story -
Opening Up The Dark Side Of The Universe
September 11, 2003 — Physicists in the UK are ready to start construction of a major part of an advanced new experiment, designed to search for elusive gravitational ... > full story -
Chandra X-Ray Observatory "Hears" A Black Hole For First Time
September 10, 2003 — NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory detected sound waves, for the first time, from a super-massive black hole. The "note" is the deepest ever detected from an object in the universe. The ... > full story -
UCLA Astronomers Detect Plasma At Black Hole
September 5, 2003 — UCLA astronomers report they have detected remarkably stormy conditions in the hot plasma being pulled into the monstrous black hole residing at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, 26,000 light years ... > full story -
Black Holes And Galaxies -- Missing Link Discovered In Our Own Cosmic Backyard
July 21, 2003 — A team of Sloan Digital Sky Survey astronomers from Germany and the United States will announce today the discovery that galaxies and extremely massive black holes seem to grow ... > full story -
Skinny Galaxy Has Supermassive Black Hole At Core, Just Like Bulging Galaxies
April 11, 2003 — Scientists have uncovered a supermassive black hole at the core of a svelte, spiral galaxy, a finding that questions a recently devised rule of thumb in which only galaxies with bulging cores have ... > full story -
Cosmic Forensics Confirms Gamma-Ray Burst And Supernova Connection
March 31, 2003 — Scientists have announced that they have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to confirm that a gamma-ray burst was connected to the death of a massive star. This result is an important step ... > full story -
Doomed Matter Near Black Hole Gets Second Lease On Life
March 26, 2003 — Supermassive black holes, notorious for ripping apart and swallowing stars, might also help seed interstellar space with the elements necessary for life, such as hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and iron, ... > full story
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