Word: remnant
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Decorating the park will be the winner of a Cambridge Arts Council contest. They chose the creation of local artist Carlos Dorrien, who made a granite sculpture "shaped like an imaginary cornerstone, like an archaeological remnant," said Lori Poklop of the Cambridge Arts Council...
...found evidence of the most massive object ever detected. That object, they surmise in a report published last week in Nature, could be a huge cluster of galaxies or a black hole far larger than any ever anticipated. More startling, it might be a "cosmic string," a bizarre, hypothetical remnant of the chaotic birth of the universe...
Water is a plotless wonder that vaguely whirlpools around the trials and tribulations of the people of Cascara, a mythical last remnant of the British Empire that the British would be only too happy to get rid of. Michael Caine is the colonial governor, sincerely concerned with the welfare of the people and his ganja crop. Brenda Vaccaro is the governor's Guatemalan wife with an unsavory past and personality. She doesn't get an "A" for originality with her Charo imitation and dialogue...
...black hole is believed to be the stellar remnant formed by the supernova explosion of a star. When the star's outer shell is blown away, the heavier elements of the core collapse upon themselves. This collapsing mass is then compacted by gravity into a mere point from which nothing, not even light, can escape...
...times as great as carbon in the layers immediately above and below them. It was bunched together in the fluffy patterns characteristic of common soot. Says Anders: "It's like the stuff you see in the flame of a candle." He believes that the soot almost certainly is a remnant of vegetation consumed by fires...