Word: elvises
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In 1966, when Jack Valenti was named the head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the studio system was largely intact. Industry pioneers like Jack Warner and Darryl Zanuck were still running the companies they had founded. Old lions like Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Charlie...
“Quasars light up because gas is falling down toward them, which heats up through friction like a rocket reentering the atmosphere,” said Martin S. Elvis, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) and a co-author of the study.
This region of super-heated gas, Elvis said, is shaped like a disk in NGC 1365’s quasar and is a source of X-ray radiation.
“In two days it went from being shining bright to being very dark, then back to being bright again,” Elvis said.
“Originally the idea was that these gas clouds were a long way out, and so would take a long time to cover up the X-ray source,” Elvis said. “Now it’s so close, it’s almost...