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  Searching for the Best Black Hole Recipe

  December 6, 2012 — In this holiday season of home cooking and carefully-honed recipes, some astronomers are asking: what is the best mix of ingredients for stars to make the largest number of plump black holes? They ... > full story
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  Galaxy-Wide Echoes from the Past: VLT Observations Identify Very Rare New Kind of Galaxy

  December 5, 2012 — A new galaxy class has been identified using observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Gemini South telescope, and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). Nicknamed ... > full story
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  Multi-Wavelength View of Radio Galaxy Hercules A

  November 29, 2012 — Spectacular jets are powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules ... > full story
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  Giant Black Hole Could Upset Galaxy Evolution Models

  November 28, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered a black hole that could shake the foundations of current models of galaxy evolution. At 17 billion times the mass of the Sun, its mass is much greater than current models ... > full story

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  Record-Setting X-Ray Jet: X-Rays from Supermassive Black Hole 12.4 Billion Light Years from Earth

  November 28, 2012 — A jet of X-rays from a supermassive black hole 12.4 billion light years from Earth has been detected. This is the most distant X-ray jet ever observed and gives astronomers a glimpse into the ... > full story
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  Biggest Black Hole Blast Discovered: Most Powerful Quasar Outflow Ever Found

  November 28, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered a quasar with the most energetic outflow ever seen, at least five times more powerful than any that have been observed to date. Quasars are extremely bright galactic ... > full story
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  Super-Massive Black Hole Inflates Giant Bubble

  October 29, 2012 — Like symbiotic species, a galaxy and its central black hole lead intimately connected lives. The details of this relationship still pose many puzzles for ... > full story
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  Monster Galaxy May Have Been Stirred Up by Black-Hole Mischief

  October 25, 2012 — Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of a whopper of an elliptical galaxy that may have been puffed up by the actions of one or more black holes in its ... > full story
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  Revealing a Mini-Supermassive Black Hole

  October 24, 2012 — One of the lowest mass supermassive black holes ever observed in the middle of a galaxy has now been identified. The host galaxy is of a type not expected to harbor supermassive black holes, ... > full story
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  NASA's NuSTAR Spots Flare from Milky Way's Black Hole

  October 23, 2012 — NASA's newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), has caught its first look at the giant black hole parked at the center of our galaxy. The observations ... > full story

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