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Hundreds of Black Holes Found
eldavojohn writes "Hundreds of black holes that were thought to exist at the beginning of the universe have been found by NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes. From the article, 'The findings are also the first direct evidence that most, if not all, massive galaxies in the distant universe spent their youths building monstrous black holes at their cores. For decades, a large population of active black holes has been considered missing. These highly energetic structures belong to a class of black holes called quasars. A quasar consists of a doughnut-shaped cloud of gas and dust that surrounds and feeds a budding supermassive black hole. As the gas and dust are devoured by the black hole, they heat up and shoot out X-rays. Those X-rays can be detected as a general glow in space, but often the quasars themselves can't be seen directly because dust and gas blocks them from our view.' This is pretty big, as it's empirical evidence proving the existence of objects that theoretically had to exist but could not be detected previously."
Proposed names for black holes:
1. American culture
2. Human environmental conscience
3. Good TV
4. Disco Comeback
5. Emo
6. Proof of Jesus
7. D.A.R.E.
Giant failures, humanity!
Anti-Globalism
Its sad to see someone who tells the truth modded as a troll.
Using openSUSE instead of Windows since 9th of October, 2007 and liking it.
OH!, MY GOD! its full off assholes.