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Black hole found in enigmatic Omega Centauri

07 August, 2008 20:42 CST6CDT

"This is the second black hole that we find in a globular cluster, so this is a very nice reassuring fact. But also, we know that there are seeds required to grow supermassive black holes from scratch. And if we find many of these, then it will be a nice source for the seeds to grow supermassive black holes."

"One implication of this discovery is that it is very likely that Omega Centauri is not a globular cluster at all, but a dwarf galaxy stripped of its outer stars and dark matter, as some scientists have suspected for a few years. More than two thousand years after Omega Centauri was wrongly classified as a star, it’s true nature is finally coming to light. But I wonder, does Omega Centauri have more surprises in store for us? This is Dr. J signing off for the Hubblecast. Once again nature has surprised us beyond our wildest imagination …"

-- Huble Information Centre

Here is a Google Earth KML file for this location: Omega Centauri.kml

"For astronomers, Omega Centauri has been an outcast amongst globular clusters for a long time. A new result obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory provides a surprising explanation for Omega Centauri’s peculiarities."

Credit:

ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen), R. Gendler

Narration:
Dr. Robert Fosbury

Design:
Martin Kornmesser

Web Technical Support:
Lars Holm Nielsen
Raquel Yumi Shida

Cinematographer:
Peter Rixner (www.perix.de)

Script:
Lars Lindberg Christensen, Raquel Yumi Shida

Director:
Lars Lindberg Christensen

--http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/html/heic0809a.html 

[Source for a PDF version of this transcript].

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Welcome to our team, niveous & Slacker1989!

07 August, 2008 08:00 CST6CDT

Welcome niveous & Slacker1989!  Keep em' crunch'n!

Here is some project news that everyone should be aware of:

Aug 5, 2008
The server upgrade is mostly complete, and we are now distributing work for our new search, S5R4a. If your personal BOINC installation has behaved strangely in the past days, please be patient. In most cases this will now sort itself out. We still need to track down a few remaining issues: some of the project PHP pages are not working entirely as they should, and there have been some performance problems with the web pages. Hopefully these will be resolved in the next few days.

Way to go everyone, our stats are hot!

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For those of you wondering what the EINSTEIN@HOME Project is:

Einstein@Home uses your computer's idle time to search for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors, the Arecibo radio telescope, and the Fermi gamma-ray satellite. Einstein@Home volunteers have already discovered more than a dozen new neutron stars, and we hope to find many more in the future. Our long-term goal is to make the first direct detections of gravitational-wave emission from spinning neutron stars. Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein almost a century ago, but have never been directly detected. Such observations would open up a new window on the universe, and usher in a new era in astronomy.

My name is Andy Wright - the founder, but really the creator of Team FreeBSD. If you want me to add any links, or have any questions or inclinations for such things related to our group (or to just say hi) - send me an e-mail: einstein@extracted.org or Skype name: extracted

''It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure'' -- Albert Einstein

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