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News: X-ray 'Echoes' Map a Supermassive Black Hole's Environs

7 Jun 2012, 18:00 UTC
News: X-ray 'Echoes' Map a Supermassive Black Hole's Environs
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An international team of astronomers using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton satellite has identified a long-sought X-ray "echo" that promises a new way to probe supersized black holes in distant galaxies.

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