black holes

From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Apr 25 1999 - 05:37:55 MDT


At 07:04 PM 24/04/99 +0200, Anders wrote:

>Actually, black holes seem to have moved out from the "weird
>possibility" category among astrophysicist and into the "odd object"
>category. I get the impression that the confidence in the data
>supporting their existence is rather high these days.

I heard on the radio yesterday that a recent study has observed a
particular X-ray spectrum profile associated with the cores of certain
(young, very distant?) galaxies that's consistent with humungous black
holes but not anything else. Sorry, no url available.

Damien Broderick



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