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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...
...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...
...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 ridiculous...
Their observations confirmed one structural model for quasars. The cloud that had eclipsed the X-ray source was found to be a mere hundredth of a light year from the black hole’s event horizon, or the point at which material is permanently consumed by the black hole...
...Army Lieutenant General Ray Odierno grumbled Friday about the rushed official announcement in a video press conference he did from Iraq with Pentagon reporters. "I know the announcement the other day was probably one that surprised" troops in harm's way and their families, he said. "We would have loved to have let our families know first before it was out in the press, and we wish we had the opportunity to do that and also talk to our soldiers first...