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Science 24 January 1997:
Vol. 275. no. 5299, pp. 477 - 0
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5299.477

Research News

James Glanz

Black holes are flourishing in theorists' computers and on their blackboards (see related item). But these objects--the children of Einstein's theory of gravity--are also alive and well in the universe, observers are finding. They are detecting increasingly strong signs of black holes at the centers of galaxies and, closer to home, in turbulent x-ray beacons.

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