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Article: HUBBLE DATA OFFER EVIDENCE OF GALAXIES' BLACK HEARTS.(NEWS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- January 14, 1997
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Byline: Associated Press
Supermassive black holes, once known only in theory, may be sucking in gas and stellar matter at a voracious rate in the center of virtually every large galaxy in the universe.
That's the conclusion of astronomers who say new observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have detected the ``celestial fingerprint'' of three black holes, including one that is a half-billion times more massive than the sun. A survey of 15 other galaxies suggests that 14 of them also have black holes.
The discoveries are the strongest observational evidence yet for black holes, an exotic and elusive object first predicted by Albert Einstein in ...