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Black Hole BLOWBACK

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By Wallace Tucker, Harvey Tananbaum, Andrew Fabian
| Scientific American Verified
A single black hole, smaller than the solar system, can control the destiny of an entire cluster of galaxies If you drew a large-scale map of the universe, it would look rather like a map of the U.S. Interstate Highway System. Galaxies line up in filaments that crisscross intergalactic space like freeways. In between the roads are regions of relatively low density: the cosmic countryside. And at the crossroads, where multiple filaments converge, are clusters of galaxies: the cosmic megacities.
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Chandra Telescope Observes Two Decades of Turning Theory Into Reality

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By Anna Diamond, Harvey Tananbaum
| Smithsonian Magazine Verified
SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | Nov. 26, 2019, 2:12 p.m. When looking at glorious images of cosmic phenomena, like black holes and supernovae, with striking colors set against the stark, dark backdrop of the universe, it’s important to remember that before that picture could be made, it started as a researcher’s hypothesis. Ideas of these brilliant, stunning celestial forces start as data points on a page before scientists can even develop a sense of what they might look like.
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Remembering Riccardo Giacconi: A Titan of the Heroic Age of Astronomy

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By Wallace Tucker, Ethan Schreier, Harvey Tananbaum, PreviousThe Year
| Scientific American Verified
Riccardo Giacconi, the “Father of X-ray Astronomy,” Nobel Prize winner and one of the most influential figures of modern astrophysics, died in December at the age of 87. Over a career spanning more than five decades in time and 10 orders of magnitude in wavelength, Riccardo opened up new windows for observing the universe, and revolutionized the way "big astronomy" is done at major observatories, from the Hubble Space Telescope to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
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