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NASA Space Telescope Discovers 10 Monster Black Holes
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 7:54
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A powerful NASA space telescope has found not one, but 10 monster black holes lurking in the hearts of distant galaxies — the first major finds for the X-ray space observatory, scientists say.
The discoveries, which scientists say occurred “serendipitously,” were made as astronomers reviewed images from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), an X-ray space telescope designed specifically to hunt black holes.
This optical color image of galaxies is seen overlaidwith X-ray data (magenta)
from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
by Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com
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