ST. LOUIS—Astronomers
are all wound up over a new method for sizing up supermassive black holes found
at the cores of galaxies. The method allows researchers for the first time to
estimate the weight of these black holes in spiral galaxies up to 8 billion
light-years away, or halfway across the universe, reports Marc Seigar of the University of Arkansas
at Little Rock.
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