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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

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

2008 Ozone Hole Larger than Last Year Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 - 12:36:05 - Anuradha Menon The 2008 ozone hole – a thinning in the ozone layer over Antarctica – is larger both in size and ozone loss than 2007 but is not as large as 2006... 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

LHC Won't Punch a Hole in the Earth Monday, June 23rd, 2008 - 20:45:52 - Ehud Rattner Its official: We're not going to be blown up, smothered in stranglets, sucked into a black hole or turned into ooze by the Large Hadron Collider... read more

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