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Supermassive Black Holes 'Not Guilty' Sunday, January 25th, 2009 - 15:49:48 - Ehud Rattner A team of Yale University astronomers has discovered that galaxies stop forming stars long before their central supermassive black holes reach their... read more

Studying Black Holes Using a PlayStation 3 Sunday, December 28th, 2008 - 17:55:46 - Ehud Rattner A research team from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, have configured 16 PlayStation 3's... read more

AMD Adds 'Black' Dual-Core Athlon Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 - 12:03:19 - Ehud Rattner AMD recently rolled out a pair of dual-core Athlons, part of its "Cartwheel" value platform for home PCs. Only one of the parts will be available... read more

Particles of Anti-matter Created in Lab Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 - 13:52:27 - Ehud Rattner A new ability to create a large number of positrons in a small laboratory has recently opened the door to several fresh avenues of anti-matter... read more

View the Birth of a Galaxy Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 - 16:55:34 - Anuradha Menon A bit of serendipity has given astronomers a surprise view of a never-before-observed event in the birth of a galaxy. University of Florida and... read more

Monster Tag Team Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 - 09:59:59 - Ehud Rattner Astronomers taking a second look at a distant galaxy have found it is actually a pair of colliding galaxies, each harboring a supermassive black hole... read more

Closest Look Ever at a Black Hole's Edge Friday, September 5th, 2008 - 12:29:30 - Anuradha Menon Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way. By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and... read more

Young Stars Near Black Holes Mystery Solved Friday, August 22nd, 2008 - 14:48:09 - Anuradha Menon The mystery of how young stars can form within the deep gravity of black holes has been solved by a team of astrophysicists at the Universities of St... read more

A New Way To Weigh Giant Black Holes Monday, July 21st, 2008 - 12:16:12 - Ehud Rattner Working out the mass of huge black holes, like the ones hiding in the center of galactic nuclei, is no easy task and attempts are being made to find... read more

First Digital Music Mmade in Manchester Thursday, June 19th, 2008 - 10:23:48 - Ehud Rattner A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer... read more

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