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Merging Green Galaxies

Posted on April 6, 2015 by adyacob

This picture is a pretty cool visual representation of what’s going on way out there in outer space. This picture …

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The scale of supermassive black holes is mind boggling!

Posted on January 23, 2015 by lindenmuthadam

Crazy black hole video! They say learning about astronomy is a great way to feel insignificant, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the study of supermassive black holes. The amount of matter contained within these beasts is impossible to comprehend without visual aids. The black hole in the center of the Phoenix cluster […] Continue reading →

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A Big Snack

Posted on April 9, 2013 by a2megal

The physics major in me has always been incredibly interested in black holes. We haven’t spoken about them much in this course, but there are likely black holes at the center of each galaxy, and thus studying black holes can tell us a lot about galaxies in other parts of the universe. For the first […] Continue reading →

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