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How Supermassive Black Holes Limit Their Own Growth A team of astronomers has determined that even the Universe's largest black holes are capable of limiting their own growth, through a very simple mechanism. They engulf surrounding matter with such speed and greed, that they cast away large amounts of material in the process. This is the discovery the group ...	2 March 2011 02:45 GMT

Experts Snap First Direct Image of an Exoplanet Some time ago, astronomers were thrilled to announce the fact that an extrasolar planet had been imaged directly for the first time ever. However, the discovery had not been confirmed by independent, follow-up studies, which is precisely what happened recently. An independent science team managed to attest to the acc...	30 June 2010 05:09 GMT

First Planet to Circle “Normal” Star Found Hawaii's Gemini North telescope helped capture the image of a planet orbiting a star which resembles our Sun. This is a historical event for astronomers.Ten years ago, 1RXS J160929.1-210524 was identified by Thomas Preibisch and his team as a 5 million-year old pre-main sequence star located about 470 light year...	20 September 2008 04:32 GMT

UK Astronomers Booted From the Gemini Observatory UK astronomers just lost their sits in the best northern observatory that they had access to. Due to funding cuts, the board that administers the Gemini Observatory decided that it is best that the UK should be restricted from having direct access to the telescope. Thus in December last year, the UK's Science an...	29 January 2008 05:41 GMT

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