Word: objects
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Volcker became the object of intense criticism when his tight money policy drove the last recession to greater depths, but the ensuing economic recovery delivered his vindication...
...paper published this month in the British journal Nature, six astronomers reported that they had made the most precise measurement yet of an object at the galactic center within Sgr A*, which for two decades has been known to be radiating large amounts of energy. The size and shape of Sgr A*, and its energetic output, says Caltech Astronomer Kwok-yung Lo, are strong evidence that "there may be a black hole in the center of our galaxy" devouring matter at a rapid rate...
...billion miles long and almost a billion miles wide -- impressive by earthly standards but diminutive on a galactic scale and in relation to the tremendous amount of energy it emits. Concludes Astronomer Donald Backer of the University of California, Berkeley: "What we observe is a very bright, compact object that appears to be rather small by stellar dimensions. Yet it's radiating a lot of luminosity. There are many stellar objects in the galaxy that radiate this amount of energy, but this one is peculiar. None of the others are as compact or as steady." In other words, it behaves...
...knowing its size, they will be able to calculate its density. Says Lo: "When you find that the density is extremely high and the gravity is so strong that it will overcome all known mechanisms of pressure support, then that would be proof that there is a gravitationally collapsed object...
...sculpture promptly became an object of loathing to many of the people who worked in offices around it; they complained that it prevented their crossing or even using the space. In March the regional administrator of the GSA, William J. Diamond, convened a public hearing to gather opinions (both expert and lay) on Tilted Arc. Some 180 people spoke, two-thirds pro, one- third con. Last month a GSA-appointed panel recommended, based on the hearing, that the sculpture be removed, but the final decision will be made in Washington by GSA Acting Administrator Dwight Ink. The piece's public...