Sentences with phrase «mystery about black holes»

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Using NASA's super-sensitive Chandra X-ray space telescope, a team of astronomers led by Q. Daniel Wang at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has solved a long - standing mystery about why most super massive black holes (SMBH) at the centers of galaxies have such a low accretion rate — that is, they swallow very little of the cosmic gases available and instead act as if they are on a severe diet.

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — The mystery about a thin, bizarre object in the center of the Milky Way headed toward our galaxy's enormous black hole has been solved by UCLA astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory, home of the two largest telescopes on Earth.

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — The mystery about a thin, bizarre object in the center of the Milky Way headed toward our galaxy's enormous black hole has been solved by UCLA astronomers using the W. M. Keck... Read more»

Physicists are gearing up to send a re-engineered science instrument originally designed for lofty balloon flights high in Earth's atmosphere to the International Space Station next week to broaden their knowledge of cosmic rays, subatomic particles traveling on intergalactic routes that could hold the key to unlocking mysteries about supernovas, black holes, pulsars and dark matter.

A 2011 amendment makes it a criminal offense to disclose who donates SSO money, how much they donate, or which schools receive these donations, making any knowledge about where the money goes so shrouded in mystery that the Society of Professional Journalists awarded HB 1133 the Black Hole Award, for «the most heinous violations of the public's right to know.»

According to Professor Hawking, to get a complete idea of the universe, we must know about atoms that are building blocks of every element on the universe, the force which binds the atom together, life of stars; birth and death, the outline of time and space, the black hole mysteries and the galaxy profile.