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...pleasures beyond one's means -- is, after all, one of the central subjects of middle-class life, and also one that movies determinedly avoid. Even if this movie were less nuanced in its pursuit of the forbidden topic, it would be welcome. But dry, clear and finely tuned, The Object of Beauty is a treasurable chamber piece...
...terrible physical violence is all too often perpetrated by men on women. But it is very much to be hoped that the outrage would be no less if Ellis' monster had been a woman, or more of its victims men (the offense, in other words, lies not in the object of the sentences but in the sentences themselves...
Astronomers and physicists have learned repeatedly that the universe is more creative than they are. Time and again they have peered closely at the cosmos and discovered some object or phenomenon that they had never imagined could exist. The latest surprise came last week, and it forced scientists to drop whatever they were doing and scribble hurried calculations, even on napkins and scraps of envelopes. A report in the Astrophysical Journal claimed that something gigantic is hiding in the core of a distant galaxy called NGC 6240. Perhaps it is a black hole, a concentration of matter so dense that...
...comes the mysterious phenomenon in NGC 6240. It was first spotted in 1986 by astronomers working with a University of Hawaii telescope, but they checked and rechecked their puzzling findings before finally publishing a report last week. At first blush, it looks temptingly revolutionary. The apparent object is invisible, detectable only by its gravitational pull on surrounding gases. Calculation pegs its mass at about 100 billion times the mass of the sun, or about as much as the entire Milky Way. Yet it is squeezed into a mere 3,000 light-years, only about one-thirtieth the diameter...
...abnormal galaxy though. In fact, it is really two galaxies in the process of colliding. The violence of the collision may account for the unexpected forces at work, rather than a black hole or some other strange object. And even if there is a great mass in the galaxy, it could be made of ordinary stars. All it would take to hide these would be a veil of dust...