Recent articles in Astronomy and Astrophysics:
Author: T. JohannsenA&A 507, 617 (2009) Received 1 July 2009 / Accepted 9 September 2009 Keywords: gravitation, black hole physics, X-rays: binaries, stars: individual: J1118+480, X-rays: stars. (Read More)
Recent articles in Astronomy and Astrophysics:
Authors: J. Svoboda, M. Dovčiak, R. Goosmann and V. Karas A&A 507, 1 (2009) Received 24 February 2009 / Accepted 4 August 2009 Keywords: accretion, accretion discs, black hole physics, galaxies: active, X-rays: binaries. (Read More)
Recent articles in Astronomy and Astrophysics:
Authors: N. A. Silant'ev, M. Yu. Piotrovich, Yu. N. Gnedin and T. M. Natsvlishvili A&A 507, 171 (2009) Received 1 September 2008 / Accepted 15 July 2009 Keywords: black hole physics, magnetic fields, accretion, accretion disks, polarization. (Read More)
Bad Astronomy:
When Galileo first turned his telescope to the sky, almost exactly 400 years ago, he could not possibly have known what he was starting. Today, four centuries later, we’ve come a long, long way. To celebrate the anniversary o (Read More)
Submitted by coreburn
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I favorited a YouTube video: An animation put together using data collected by astronomers all over the world to examine the surroundings of the Black Hole suspected to be present at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. (Read More)
Recent articles in Astronomy and Astrophysics:
Authors: F. M. Rieger and F. A. Aharonian A&A 506, L41 (2009) Received 25 May 2009 / Accepted 18 September 2009 Keywords: acceleration of particles, black hole physics, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, galaxies: active, ga (Read More)
Ecademy: user blogs:
Horizon --- fun with black holes. 2009-11-03 22:34Excellent program from Horizon tonight about black holes. Who's Afraid of a Big Black Hole?From the information presented in this BBC Horizon programme, I have solved the Big (Read More)
Geekdad:
Now here was a man who knew how to die. (image: 3D Realms)As a gamer, I play a lot of video games. In playing a lot of video games, I also die a lot. I mean all the freaking time. I think I “fell down” in Call of Duty: World (Read More)
UNITEDSTATES Category :: Xirincs Feeds Directory:
I’m going to Chicago next week for the American Bankers Association meeting. Oddly, I haven’t been invited to the Roaring ’20s dance party I hear they’re having.Why wouldn’t they celebrate the era of wild money and hot tim (Read More)
MN Headhunter/Nerd Search:
The following post is courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap: From: Lorraine Russo As job seekers look for ways to stand out from the crowd—and as recruiters continue to whine and complain about the increasing volume of resume (Read More)
Submitted by koltregaskes
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Super-injunctions raise a worrying question: what else don't we know? Hitler could be alive, and in negotiations to present the Radio 1 breakfast showAs you may have noticed, there was a bit of a kerfuffle last week involving (Read More)
Submitted by dennismcguire
from blog:
The Week 6 NFL showdown between the Philadelphia Eagles and Oakland Raiders will be an extremely different story for each team. The Eagles sit at 3-1, coming off yet another lopsided-scoring game in which they delivered a def (Read More)
Submitted by coreburn
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The Galactic Center of the Milky Way, located about 25,000 +/- 1,000 light years from Earth, lies in the direction of the constellations Ophiuchus, Sagittarius, and Scorpio. There is very good empirical evidence that a super (Read More)
Submitted by loup_dargent
from blog:
Astronomers have discovered a giant galaxy surrounding the most distant supermassive black hole ever found. The galaxy, so distant that it is seen as it was 12.8 billion years ago, is as large as the Milky Way galaxy and harb (Read More)
Recent articles in Astronomy and Astrophysics:
Authors: H. Zhang, Y. Wang, F. Yuan, F. Ding, X. Luo and Q. H. Peng A&A 502, 419 (2009) Received 8 March 2009 / Accepted 13 May 2009 Keywords: accretion, accretion disks, black hole physics, nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances. (Read More)
Recent articles in Astronomy and Astrophysics:
Authors: A. Sądowski, M. A. Abramowicz, M. Bursa, W. Kluźniak, A. Różańska and O. Straub A&A 502, 7 (2009) Received 13 February 2009 / Accepted 21 April 2009 Keywords: accretion, accretion disks, black hole physics. (Read More)
Recent articles in Astronomy and Astrophysics:
Authors: R. Lehoucq, M. Cassé, J.-M. Casandjian and I. Grenier A&A 502, 37 (2009) Received 27 February 2009 / Accepted 18 May 2009 Keywords: gamma rays: observations, Galaxy: center, cosmology: dark matter, gamma rays: theor (Read More)
BetaNews.Com:
By Joe Wilcox, BetanewsApple has once again defied the economic gravity pulling some tech companies' earnings into a black hole. For fiscal 2009 third quarter, the company posted, again -- isn't this getting tiresome -- stron (Read More)
Recent articles in Astronomy and Astrophysics:
Authors: O. Vilhu, P. Hakala, D. C. Hannikainen, M. McCollough and K. Koljonen A&A 501, 679 (2009) Received 5 November 2008 / Accepted 19 April 2009 Keywords: black hole physics, accretion, accretion disks, stars: binaries: s (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
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David Hirschleifer writes:Regardless of who's right on the economics, clearly the ‘stimulus'language captures the pro side perfectly, and the con side not at all.Indeed, the term immunizes the mind to opposing evidence. After (Read More)