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...term black hole is misleading in the case of this galaxy, known as NGC 1365, which has a brightly lit core instead of a dark one. The galaxy’s center—known by scientists as a nucleus—emits light and radiation due to the powerful gravitational field of the black hole, and is better known as a quasar...
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...
Risaliti—who is also a visiting astrophysicist at the CFA—and his colleagues decided to delve deeper into the periodic eclipses of the NGC 1365 quasar’s emissions. Such eclipses are caused by clouds of gas that drift around the black hole, occasionally blocking X-ray radiation from reaching the earth...
...series of six observations of NGC 1365, made every two days over a period of two weeks in April 2006, happened to coincide with one such eclipse...
...started working as a consultant and soon realized that Citibank Trinidad had begun marketing the structured finance instruments that he had developed to such state-owned entities as Trintomar, a joint venture of Petrotrin and NGC, Trinidad's oil and natural-gas authorities. It bothered Seereeram that Citibank was taking complex financial vehicles intended for private companies, in part to reduce their taxes, and selling them to a struggling public entity that at the time paid minimal taxes. He began to investigate, hoping to take a fee from any money recovered. "They were not disclosing the true nature...