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Monday, 25 January 2010 19:40
Universe has less of a future than previously thought
Australian researchers have measured the amount of entropy that exists now in the Universe. They found that the Universe has much less energy available than had been previously measured. Are they right? Is the Universe aging faster?
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Sunday, 24 January 2010 21:08
New star class theorized but Electroweak Stars are hard to find
U.S. stronomers have proposed a new class of stars that haven’t even been detected yet. They are called electroweak stars—and they emit mostly neutrinos instead of light (electromagnetic radiation) like most stars--making them very difficult to locate.
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:17
Need to study a black hole? Do it here on Earth!
Japanese researchers have successfully created conditions that exist just outside a black hole—at the accretion disk. With this pioneering method, astronomers will be able to learn more about the physics of black holes.
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 13:02
CSIRO patent windfall as Aussie inventiveness honoured
Australia's national science agency, the CSIRO, has gained $200 million in extra revenue from a successful legal challenge to the use of its patented wireless technology that is now used in more than 800 million devices around the world.
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Saturday, 21 February 2009 00:14
NASA's Fermi sees largest gamma-ray burst
NASA reported on February 19, 2009 that its Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope saw the first gamma-ray burst ever seen in high resolution. But, the big news is that the GRB is the largest ever recorded, having the "greatest total energy, the fastest motions and the highest energy initial emissions ever seen."
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Thursday, 06 November 2008 20:03
Just how many black holes do we have?
According to two astronomers from Harvard University, hundreds of black holes could be present in the Milky Way galaxy, and could help us answer the question: How were we formed?
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Sunday, 14 September 2008 15:38
Bigger Bang Theory: Einstein's Telescope dwarfs Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider has got the world talking about life, the universe and everything. Oh, and black holes and death, of course. Just wait until people hear about it's big brother: the International Linear Collider...
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 19:17
Astronomers see gamma-ray burst shot toward Earth halfway across Universe
The international astronomy community "hit the jackpot" on March 19, 2008, as its astronomers observed GRB 080319B, a gamma-ray burst whose explosive jet shot material in the direction of Earth at an estimated speed of 99.99995% the speed of light. The event was the furthest in distance ever seen by a naked eye on Earth.
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 19:32
United States-sized telescope views structure of Milky Way's black hole
American-German-Dutch astronomers combined radio telescopes in California, Arizona, and Hawaii to make a very long baseline interferometer (VLBI)--a "virtual" telescope. It was able to measure the structure within Sagittarius A*, what is believed to be the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:41
Large Hadron Collider: Blue earth safe from black holes
Over five years of independent research by particle physicists concludes that any black holes produced by CERN's Large Hadron Collider will not demolish the Earth.
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 21:42
GLAST study of black holes set to launch June 3, 2008
The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is scheduled to launch Tuesday, June 3, 2008, for its mission to analyze exotic phenomena, such as supermassive black holes, all over the Universe that generate enormous amounts of very energetic gamma radiation.
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Friday, 25 April 2008 00:44
First look: Black hole ejects plasma jet
An international group of astronomers used a series of radio telescopes to look at—for the first time—a supermassive black hole ejecting a high-speed jet of plasma particles, what is called a blazar.
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