Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Two Record-Breaking Black Hole Behemoths Spotted

Discovery News - December 6, 2011
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A team of astronomers, headed by Nicholas McConnell of the University of California, Berkeley, used data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Keck and Gemini observatories in Hawaii, and the McDonald Observatory in Texas to observe the stars orbiting around the central nuclei of both galaxies and calculated the mass of the black holes hidden in their cores.
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