Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Birth of a Black Hole Detected for the First Time

Associated Press
GREENBELT, Md. —
The birth of a black hole has been captured for the first time, a NASA scientist said Monday. NASA's Swift orbiting observatory detected the gamma ray burst of the collision between two dense neutron stars about early Monday and pointed its visible light and X-ray telescopes at the collision about a minute later, said Neil Gehrels, lead scientist for the Swift mission.........


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