New Cosmic Flash May Reveal Secret of Birth of a Black Hole

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

A new kind of cosmic flash may reveal the secret of the birth of a black hole.When a massive star exhausts its fuel, it collapses under its own gravity and produces a black hole, an object so dense in nature  that not even light can escape its gravitational grip. According to a new analysis by an astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), just before the black hole forms, the dying star may generate a distinct burst of light that will allow astronomers to witness the birth of a new black hole for the first time.

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Sunken Egyptian city reveals 1,200-year-old secrets

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NASA Discovered Giant Hurricane on Saturn

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

A giant hurricane  around Saturn’s north pole has been discovered by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, and researchers hope it will help shape our understanding of similar storms on Earth.

Scientists aren’t sure about the time hurricane formed, but speculate that it could be a permanent weather feature, said fellow Cassini imaging team scientist Andrew Ingersoll at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

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Meteorites May Reveal Secret of Life on Mars

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

 A team of scientists, including a Michigan State University professor, has analysed a meteorite that formed on the Red Planet more than a billion years ago.And though their  work is not able  to solve the mystery, it is perhaps laying the groundwork for future researchers to answer the age-old question of existence of any form of life on Mars.

The problem,according to  MSU geological sciences professor Michael Velbel, is that most meteorites that originated on Mars arrived on Earth so long ago that now they have characteristics that tell of their life on Earth, obscuring any clues it might offer about their time on Mars.

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