... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... SAO researchers have discovered that supercritical accretion disks eject hot gas with a velocity of a few thousand kilometers per second. The supercritical regime of accretion onto black holes is very important for astrophysics. In the first half-billion years just after our Universe was born, supermassive black holes (quasars) began to appear and grow in centers of young galaxies. ... Gas falling onto a black hole (accretion) is not a frequent phenomenon in our Galaxy. ...

A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

Molniya Triplane Aircraft . At present NPO MOLNIYA is working not only in the space field but also on aircraft engineering. ... Considering this NPO MOLNIYA has chosen a "triplane" aerodynamic scheme stipulating in comparison with traditional schemes the essential increase of flying safety and fuel economy of its aircraft. The triplanes have advantages of canard and classical schemes, but are free from their faults. ... Molniya-1 . ... Heracles Triplane and Aerospace Systems . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . APOD is Two Years Old Today . ... 16.06.1997 . ... Credit: Apologies to E. Ender (1856) Explanation: The first Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) appeared two years ago today. ... In Tycho's day, humanity discovered the nature of the Earth and the geometry of the Solar System . ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . ... APOD Is Ten Years Old Today . ... APOD is One Year Old Today . APOD is Six Years Old Today . APOD is Five Years Old Today ...

From: TerryMosel@aol.com Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:48:14 EDT Subject: Possible Nova + ASGI meeting Hi all, 1. ... The Autumn 2002 ASGI meeting will be `hosted' by the Departments of Information Technology and Experimental Physics at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and will take place on Friday the 18th of October in the Seminar Room of the National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science, which is situated at the north end of the University campus. ... Terry Moseley . ...

... Posts tagged ?White Dwarf binary? ... What appeared to be an accreting white dwarf binary system could be discerned in 4-year old observations, coincident with the location of a supernova that went off in November 2007 (SN2007on). ... Tags: arXiv , Chandra , CXC , Optical , Peter Edmonds , positional coincidence , positional error , Power , progenitor , question for statisticians , significance , Supernova , Type Ia , White Dwarf , White Dwarf binary , X-ray . ... 5 Comments . ... Entries RSS . ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

... The search for distant objects which can be both galaxies and quasars is one of the most important problems of observational astrphysics, because it allows one to determine cosmological parameters connected with the time of appearence and evolution of stellar systems, large scale structure of the Universe. ... Radio galaxies are important objects to be studied because they are sources of infrared-optical-ultraviolet continuum, emission lines and continual radio emission. ...