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Is Reality Real or Are We All in a Hologram? Fermilab Aims to Find Out

(Oct. 21) -- This article, the computer you are reading it on, you yourself and the rest of the three-dimensional universe we appear to exist in are all merely a hologram. That's what Fermilab particle astrophysicist Craig Hogan is setting out to prove by developing the most precise clock in the world -- known as a...

Astronomers Observe Black Holes Devouring Matter

(June 12) -- Astronomers at an Australian university have developed a new technique that lets them see matter falling into huge black holes millions of miles away. Their secret? Use a galaxy, a collection of millions of stars, as a lens. The gravitational pull of black holes compresses and super-heats the matter nearby,...

Hallmark Pulls Card After Complaints of Racial Slur

(June 12) -- Hallmark has pulled one of its graduation cards off the shelves after the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People complained that it used racial stereotypes and contained an abusive slur aimed at black women. The card's micro speaker has two Hallmark characters, Hoops and Yoyo, bantering...

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Monster Black Hole Caught Swallowing Unlucky Star

For the first time, scientists have identified a stellar victim of a giant black hole â an unlucky star whose death may ultimately provide more clues on the inner workings of the enigmatic gravitational monster that devoured it.

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What Would Happen If You Fell Into A Black Hole?

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05/30/12 Final countdown for NASA's NuSTAR X-ray black hole... Source: Register USA NASA has confirmed that it is good to go with the delayed launch of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) on June 13, and expects to begin spying out the supermassive black holes at the heart of galaxies within a month.
05/29/12 New Discovery Shows Milky Way's Supermassive Black... Source: The Daily Galaxy "These faint jets are a ghost or after-image of what existed a million years ago," said Meng Su, an astronomer at the Harvard, and lead author of a new paper in the Astrophysical Journal.
05/20/12 Black hole observed gobbling up a star Source: Philly.com - Philadelphia PA Back when single-celled organisms ruled Earth, a gigantic black hole lurking quietly at the center of a distant galaxy dismantled and devoured a star.
05/17/12 Staring into the Mouth of a Black Hole Source: Softpedia News By utilizing one of the most advanced interferometry instruments in the world, named AMBER, a team of astronomers was recently able to observe the active accretion phase of a supermassive black hole.
05/16/12 A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 16 Source: Geek Dad Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses.