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Welcome to our archive of past news articles.
You will find previous articles listed below
from most the recent back to our first articles in 1996.
2009
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First Black Holes Kept to a Strict Diet, Study Shows [11 August 2009] - A new supercomputer simulation designed to track the fate of the universe's first black holes finds that, counter to expectations, they couldn't efficiently gorge themselves on nearby gas. The findings have implications for understanding the formation of galaxies and of the giant black holes that reside in their centers.
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New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record [04 May 2009] - NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old, or less than five percent of its present age. The event, dubbed GRB 090423, is the most distant cosmic explosion ever seen.
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NASA'S Fermi Telescope Unveils a Dozen New Pulsars [22 January 2009] - NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 12 new pulsars that emit only gamma rays. In addition, Fermi has detected gamma-ray pulses from 18 others. The finds are transforming our understanding of how these stellar cinders work.
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