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...There they found a huge star, a so-called class-B supergiant, at least 20 times as massive as the sun. It was traveling erratically through space, as if it were being tugged by a smaller companion star moving around it. From this gravitational pull, astronomers figured that the unseen star had at least three times the mass...
...flow of X rays. Recent findings by NASA'S new Copernicus earth satellite strongly support this scenario. Cygnus X-l shows a sharp decrease in X-ray emissions every 5.6 days. That, according to optical astronomers, seems to be the time it takes the bright star's unseen companion to make one trip around it. In other words, every 5.6 days the black hole passes behind the visible star. Thus, the supergiant partially blocks the X rays, resulting in the fluctuations observed on earth...
...reporter from the New York Times observed that after speaking from notes written on file cards, the Mayor-to-be rips the cards into shreds and tosses the unreadable remains into a nearby wastebasket, guarding, one supposes, against unseen enemies who are eager to embarrass...
...father of one boy I know works as a janitor in an office complex. He works for ten, sometimes for fifteen hours, every day. His work is in an unseen "second basement" underneath the "regular" sub-basement of the tallest skyscraper in Boston. He works so many deep and sunless meters underneath the level of the lobby floor, that he is even underneath the level of the turnpike that runs underneath the building. I talk with him often in the evening hours after he returns from work: coated with dirt and broken with exhaustion. This man, 56 years...
...seven members of the Senate Select Committee on Campaign Activities are the permanent panelists of the country's most engrossing daytime show. But Chief Counsel Samuel Dash, Minority Counsel Fred Thompson and the unseen staff members working for them off-camera are the producers, directors, stage managers and prop men without whom the spectacle would...