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Welcome to our archive of past news articles.
You will find previous articles listed below from most the recent back to our first articles in 1996.

2012

Link to article NASA's Swift Satellite Discovers a New Black Hole in our Galaxy
[11 October 2012]
- NASA's Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The outburst, produced by a rare X-ray nova, announced the presence of a previously unknown stellar-mass black hole.


Link to article X-ray 'Echoes' Map a Supermassive Black Hole's Environs
[07 June 2012]
- An international team of astronomers using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton satellite has identified a long-sought X-ray "echo" that promises a new way to probe supersized black holes in distant galaxies.


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