Black Hole Simulation Breaks Ground


	Black Hole Simulation Breaks Ground

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7-6-2007 5:43 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/18dfad03-d66a-4f20-b151-b5960bcf5e7a/1CDC20F6-9609-4640-A13F-366734B9071A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/06/blackhole_spa.html?category=space" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/06/blackhole_spa.html?category=space" style="font-size: 11px;">dsc.discovery.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/06/blackhole_spa.html?category=space"><SPAN class="primeColor">Black Hole Simulation Breaks Ground</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/06/blackhole_spa.html?category=space"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dsc.discovery.com/img/4CAE3214-B69B-4253-80A3-FAC3DC9053B7" alt="Matter-Eating Monster" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/06/blackhole_spa.html?category=space"><P><B>July 6, 2007</B> — Super-massive black holes at the centers of galaxies have just been promoted from the freak show to the big top. A new supercomputer simulation recreating the evolution of the universe is including, for the first time, the effects of the matter-eating monsters found at the heart of almost every galaxy. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/06/blackhole_spa.html?category=space"><P>Previous attempts to simulate how the universe evolved from an almost uniform expanse of matter and energy into our current cobweb of galactic clusters had not included the super-massive black holes. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/06/blackhole_spa.html?category=space"><P>One reason for the omission was that until a few years ago, it wasn't at all clear that black holes were important in the making of galaxies. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/06/blackhole_spa.html?category=space"><P>But that thinking has changed. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/06/blackhole_spa.html?category=space"><P>"You cannot forget black holes," said cosmologist Tiziana Di Matteo at Carnegie Mellon University. "What the simulations are trying to investigate is whether we understand the role black holes play." </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1CDC20F6-9609-4640-A13F-366734B9071A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>