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Black Hole Sans Donut Puzzles Astronomers

Posted by timothy on from the no-eclair-either dept.

Anonymous Squonk writes: "This time, a telescope made news by not finding something. According to this Honolulu Star-Bulletin article, a black hole was found that did not contain the expected 'donut' of warm matter swirling around it. This discovery (or lack of discovery) may lead scientists to rethink what they know about the core of active galaxies."

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  1. first linux is dung post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    TOP TEN SIGNS YOUR NETWORK APPLIANCE IS BASED ON LINUX
    10) Console sometimes says "Filesystems have gone too long without fsck".
    9) Randomly connects to slashdot and posts insipid comments under
    anonymous-coward@yourdomain.com.
    8) Supposed to be a web cache, but somehow turned into warez cache.
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    and blasting the free software song at 3am.