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Black hole caught in action

Black holes might not live up to the reputation of being aggressive, star-devouring machines. Instead, a new study published in Nature suggests...
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How to make a black hole

Black holes are, well, odd. They are the place where common sense goes to die. Physics takes such a beating when it comes to black holes that when...
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A supernova in 2012?

  • Doomsday 2012
  • December 18, 2011
Pole shift. Meteorites. Super-volcanoes. Earthquakes. There’s no lack of conjecture on doomsday predictions for December 2012. Now there...
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Future Man and the Large Hadron Collider

News of a highly peculiar would-be saboteur who targeted Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider project - aka the Black Hole Generator - has been...
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Largest most distant reservoir of water found yet in space

Astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and involving the University of Colorado Boulder (UCB) has discovered the...
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Black hole consumes sun sized star

On March 28th NASA's SWIFT spacecraft caught a black hole consuming a star the size of our sun. With the help of several land and space...
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Discovery of exploding star thirty years ago leads to notion of black hole birth

It was in 1979, when an amateur astronomer made the observation of a star's explosion. Now, after thirty years of watching the explosion and...
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YouTube Spotlight: What's Inside a Black Hole?

Ever wondered what's inside a Black Hole?To view VIDEO, click on second IMAGE on your leftCRAVE MORE? YouTube Spotlight VideosDarrell Lum is...
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Black Hole Challenges Icarus of 21st Century

Brian Greene reads from his new picture book, a spaceage Icarus tale, at Barnes and Noble, 14th Street/Union Square, Manhattan, 7 p.m. Monday, Sept...
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