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Following four years of research, Jeffrey E. McClintock of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and MIT's Ronald A. Remillard told a meeting of the American Astronomical Society that they had identified a dark, massive object in the Constellation Monoceros as a probable black hole...
...team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has discovered cosmic bubbles in space which may alter scientists' views of how the universe was formed...
...Stars exploded, left holes in space and subsequently pushed the matter outwards due to force of the blast," said Smithsonian Professor of Astronomy John P. Huchra, one of the astronomers...
Huchra, Geller and Valerie de Lapparent, a graduate student, had to conduct most of their research at the Smithsonian's 1.5-meter telescope in the desert of Arizona because the air in Boston was too thick for accurate observation...
...Arthur M. Sackler Museum here at Harvard is the fourth institution to bear his name, the other three being the Arthur M. Sackler Sciences Center at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Arthur M. Sackler Health Communications Center at the Tufts University Medical Center in downtown Boston...