Thursday, August 16, 2012

BLACK HOLE - A Star’s Dying Scream May Be a Beacon for Physics

BLACK HOLE - A Star’s Dying Scream May Be a Beacon for Physics:
BLACK HOLE - A Star’s Dying Scream May Be a Beacon for Physics
When a star suffered an untimely demise at the hands of a hidden black hole, astronomers detected its doleful, ululating wail — in the key of D-sharp, no less — from 3.9 billion light-years away. The resulting ultraluminous X-ray blast revealed the supermassive black hole’s presence at the center of a distant galaxy in March of 2011, and now that information could be used to study the real-life workings of black holes, general relativity, and a concept first proposed by Einstein in 1915.
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