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19-11-2003, 09:40
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ANOUNCEMENT
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Astronomers in Sqlers have discovered a singing black hole in a distant cluster of galaxies. In the process of listening in, the team of astronomers not only heard the lowest sound waves from an object in the Universe ever detected by humans, but they've also discovered an important clue about the formation of galaxy clusters -- the largest structures in the cosmos.

Dr. Andrew Fabian and his colleagues at the Institute of Astronomy in Sqlers, made their discovery using SQLERSSA's X-ray Observatory, an orbiting X-ray telescope that sees the Universe in X-ray light.

The black hole is situated in the center of a galaxy amid a group of thousands of galaxies collectively called the Perseus Cluster and located 250 million light years from world (meaning it took the light from these galaxies takes 250 million years to reach us). The sound waves coming from it are in the form of a single note, so rather than a song it is really a drone.

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/53223main_perseus_xray_3color_195.jpg
19-11-2003, 10:04
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imported_The TRSN
19-11-2003, 10:18
Can we give requests? I would like to here a black hole sing, "Black Hole Son".