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...almost certain that they have located a black hole. Its presence was hinted at in 1971 by the first earth-orbiting X-ray satellite Uhuru, which detected a strong and widely fluctuating flow of X rays from Cygnus. Scientists suspected that the radiation source, which they named Cygnus Xl, was a pulsar, or neutron star, the result of a different form of stellar collapse. But the uneven fluctuations bore no resemblance to the steady bursts of radiation from other pulsars...
Shortly thereafter, radio astronomers, using their more sharply focused antennas, picked up radio signals from the area. That gave a much more precise fix on Cygnus Xl, letting other astronomers train big optical telescopes on the site. 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...
...largest distiller, will diversify its Four Roses blend and begin selling a "light blend" under the same name. The company will also have a new light brand called Galaxy. Schenley will introduce no fewer than six light variations of regular products, including J.W. Dant Premium Light, Schenley XL, and Red Satin. American Brands, taking a cue from makers of the fast-selling pop wines, is giving its products names that sound like rock groups: White Balloon and Honey Go Light...
...without Buck Rogers there might not have been any Martian Chronicles. There almost certainly would not have been any Flash Gordon, Or "This Island Universe." Or "Fireball XL-5." Or Roger Ramjet...
...student who mistakenly stumbled into U.C.L.A.'s Haines Hall might have thought that he was listening to a class in Double-Dealing and Back-Knifing 1. The university catalogue calls the course Network Television: The Facts of Life (Theater Arts XL 198A), but its professor, William Dozier, calls it The Jungle. This appraisal, he tells his class, is "not a pessimistic view but a realistic one. It is a jungle. Compared with television, Khe Sanh is the fairway of the Bel Air Country Club...