Huge Black Holes Formed Quickly After Big Bang
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Incredibly massive black holes had fully matured just a billion years after the birth of the universe, according to two separate studies.
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How do you get general relativity and quantum mechanics to live together? String theory is the darling for now, but other promising approaches are floating out there as well. By Mark Anderson.
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"It's like a bully, a black-hole bully punching the nose of a passing galaxy"  The latest act of senseless violence caught on tape is cosmic in scope: A black hole in a "death star galaxy" blasting a neighboring galaxy with a deadly jet of radiation and energy. via Freerepublic.com
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AUSTIN, Texas &mdash; The most massive black hole in the universe tips the cosmic scales at 18 billion times more massive than the sun, astronomers suggest today at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
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When it comes to matter, anyway Blackholes all gobble up matter in the same way, whatever their size, new research has found. UK astronomers say that the same processes are at work inside all black holes: the only difference is that of scale.â¦
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Hubble's still got it In a galaxy far, far away, a period of unusually intense star formation is underway. Thousands upon thousands of new stars are blazing into life, as a starburst rips through the galaxy NGC 4449.â¦
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The astronomers uncovered evidence about the origin of the universe and how it grew into galaxies.
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Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics yesterday for producing the first tangible evidence that the universe began billions of years ago with the long-theorized big bang.
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Astronomers sifting through  the radiation signals emanating from a distant black hole have separated the  emission into its two component parts, a key step in understanding how such  massive objects work.
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Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered one of the fastest stars ever seen--a &quot;cosmic cannonball&quot; that is challenging theories to explain its blistering speed.
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Holy belching quasars, Batman NASA astronomers think they have identified a pair of supermassive black holes, or quasars, that look like they are teetering on the brink of huge explosions.â¦
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US scientists working with images from the Hubble Space Telescope have identified what may turn out to be some of the earliest star-forming galaxies.
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Fourteen billion years after the Big Bang started it all, there is still life in the old cosmos. Astronomers announced yesterday that they had discovered three dozen baby galaxies in what
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How many live at home, are practising Jedis, etc Russian astronomers have begun work that will allow them to work out how many black holes there are in the Universe.â¦
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Black holes may actually drag the fabric of space and time around them as they spin, creating waves for cosmic material to surf on, astronomers said on Monday.
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A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies around 13 billion years ago.
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Astronomers have spotted three dozen bright, young galaxies that defy the general aging trends of the universe. The galaxies, fairly nearby and massive, are more youthful than they ought to be, based on current theory.