Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen...
Amazed, and as if astonished and stupefied, I stood still.

— Tycho Brahe

black holes

9 Astronomy MIlestones for 2009

Submitted by myamiphil on Wed, 12/30/2009 - 12:10pm.
9 Astronomy Milestones in 2009
By Jeremy Hsu
SPECIAL to SPACE.com
posted: 28 December 2009
06:09 pm ET

Black Holes heavier than once thought....

Submitted by myamiphil on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 9:07pm.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090607_blackholes

Giant black holes even bigger than thought: study

June 8, 2009
Courtesy Amer­i­can As­tro­nom­i­cal So­ci­e­ty
and World Science staff

As­tro­no­mers have used com­put­er sim­ula­t­ions to cal­cu­late that a black hole at the heart of one the larg­est near­by ga­lax­ies is two to three times heav­i­er than pre­vi­ously thought.

John Wheeler (1911-2008)

Submitted by Kevin on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 4:34pm.

John Wheeler, the great physicist who coined the term "black hole", passed away yesterday: http://cosmicvariance.com/2008/04/13/goodbye/

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=pioneering-physicist-john-wheeler-di...

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