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...Einstein's theory is correct, black holes are the natural consequences of the death of giant stars. In what astronomers call catastrophic gravitational collapse, most of the matter contained in such a dying star begins falling in toward the stellar center. If the conditions are right, the matter crushes together with such enormous force that it literally compresses itself out of existence. The star becomes what mathematicians call a "singularity." Its matter is squeezed into an infinitesimally small volume, and it simultaneously becomes infinitely dense and has an infinitely high gravitational force. At the point of singularity, time and space...
...Though no similar event had been seen in the Milky Way since 1604, they had observed in other galaxies great stellar explosions called supernovas. These occur when massive dying stars, like giant springs, rebound from their calamitous collapse. For days or weeks such exploding stars may shine as brightly as all the galaxy's billions of stars combined. Zwicky and Baade felt sure that the force of such a gravitational collapse and explosion could not only spray material far off into the heavens, but also actually crush the very atoms in the core of a star. Orbiting electrons would...
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Crimson pitcher Larry Brown handed in his Gov 10 blue book Wednesday and took the mound against Delaware's tough curveballer Bo Dennis in the tourney opener. Although lacking his usual stellar stuff, the junior hurler held the Blue Hens to one run in six innings, with the help of some fine plays from his supporting cast...
Captain-elect Geoff Stiles picked up Harvard's final point with a sixth place height in the pole vault, at 15 ft., 6 in. Sunday. Seniors Paul Organ (14.3 in the 110-meter high hurdles) and Hasan Kayali (48 ft., 5 in. in the triple jump) capped their stellar careers with personal best performances, but they failed to pick up any points due to the tough competition...