Friday, November 26, 2010

Check this out!!!
Astronomers have captured an image of what they believe to be a newly formed black hole, which resulted from a star that went supernova in 1979. Black holes are warped regions in space where it is so dense that nothing, not even light itself, can escape. 

'If our interpretation is correct, this is the nearest example where the birth of a black hole has been observed,' said Daniel Patnaude, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who led the study. 

New galaxies, colliding stars and more... Check out the magnificent views from NASA. 

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