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"Comets" Found Orbiting Monster Black Hole "The clouds orbit the black hole at roughly ten thousand times the distance between Earth and the sun, the team...

Added: sci.physics, sci.astro What I'd like to know is how did they measure the velocity of the jet in the first place that got them this *apparent* velocity?...

If Earth and Mars reversed in their orbits so that Earth rotated in Mars' actual orbit, and Mars rotated in the actual orbit of Earth, how would each planet be...

of targets forces the Agency to squeeze the watch lists together as tightly as possible. P462-465: Its power to eavesdrop, the NSA had always insisted, came...

On Oct 3, 6:59 pm, ajay wrote: AJAY SHARMA 02 October 2009 So you tried to publish a paper full of the same mistakes that...

Here's a question that's been puzzling me. If the universe is expanding, and the further an object (e.g. a galaxy) is away from us, the faster it is moving...

In this story: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050927_massive_galaxy.html If this young galaxy is so massive and so red like an old galaxy,...

Sort of a follow-on to the previous thread about brown dwarves vs. main sequence stars. What are the currently accepted minimum masses that demarcate a brown...

What's the difference between core fusion that's supposed to power a brown dwarf star, and full thermonuclear fusion that's supposed to power a full star like...

There was some dispute not too many years ago about the age of the universe based on observations about expansion rate of the universe vs. the age of the...

SPACE.com -- Coldest Known Object in Space Is Very Unnatural "The coldest known object out in space has now been announced by scientists. It's not a frozen...

How to Make the Planet Sustain Life for Longer - Pumping nitrogen out of the atmosphere is the way to go - Softpedia "Astronomers have known for a long time...

SPACE.com -- Hidden Radio Supernova Finally Found "The object, dubbed SN 2008iz, is the closest supernova discovered by scientists in the past five years. It...

After all of these decades of work on Superstring "theories", that give us completely untestable theories, or theories that are so generic that they could...

There's been several stories recently about how a recent computer simulation determined that Earth's solar system was actually quite unique among the...

This article has me wondering a few things. SPACE.com -- Huge Black Holes Stifle Star Formation "As matter falls towards a black hole, momentum forces it to...

Current estimates are it is 13.7B yo, and 156B ly in diameter. New estimates would make it 15.8B yo, and 180B ly in diameter. This is probably the first...

Now I know that relativity tells us that going faster than light would mean travelling backwards in time. And one of the examples they often give is that...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_031215.html The above link talks about what constitutes a planet. However one interesting line they put...