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Black Holes
Archived news from StarDate magazine.

Black Holes May 'Wind Up' Spiral Galaxies
(June 2008)

'Rogue' Black Holes Patrol Milky Way
(January 2008)

Binary Black Hole Sets New Weight Record
(January 2008)

Triple-Quasar System Faces Scrambled Future
(March/April 2007)

Short-long or Long-short gamma-ray outburst may signal new way to make black holes
(March/April 2007)

Black Holes May Shut Down Starbirth in Hearts of Galaxies
(November/December 2006)

Magnetism Helps Power X-rays from Black Hole's Disk
(September/October 2006)

Milky Way's Quiet Black Hole Flared in Past
(May/June 2005)

X-Ray 'Flicker' May Pinpoint Medium-Sized Black Hole
(May/June 2005)

Black Hole Paradox Possibly Solved
(May/June 2004)

Serendipitous observations of gamma-ray burst suggest magnetic field provides the juice
(September/October 2003)

Stars and Black Holes Form Simultaneously in Early Galaxies
(July/August 2003)

Blazing Toward Darkness
(May/June 2003)

Orbiting Observatories Discover Possible "Quark" Stars
(July/August 2002) 

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