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Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: When hitting on a gay male, “Hey, my friend Ray over there totally wants your number...
...Harvard Allston Task Force Chair Ray Mellone, who also participated in the task force formed in the nineties, said that during the meetings, Harvard played the role of a partner, not of an aggressor...
...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...