Naut's Tidbits & Snippets for Sunday, February 10, 2008

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Sunday, February 10, 2008

The Great Quasar Round-Up...

A multiple-space-telescope survey has unmasked hundreds of black holes obscured within dusty, distant galaxies. As gas spirals into the black holes, they beam brightly with X-rays, forming quasars. The galaxies lie 9 to 11 billion light years away [which means we’re looking 9 to 11 billion into the... Sign in to see full entry.

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