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Astrophysics and Gravitation: Lensing of Black Holes Can Determine the Metric Around Them? Bin-Nun, A. (2010). Gravitational lensing of stars orbiting Sgr A* as a probe of the black hole metric in the Galactic center
Astrophysics and Gravitation: Fundamental constants: Big G revisited Davis, R. (2010). Fundamental constants: Big G revisited Nature, 468 (7321), 181-183 DOI: 10.1038/468181b
Astrophysics and Gravitation: New Gravitational Lenses Negrello, M., & et al. (2010). The Detection of a Population of Submillimeter-Bright, Strongly Lensed Galaxies Science, 330 (6005), 800-804 DOI: 10.1126/science.1193420
Astrophysics and Gravitation: Hubble Tries to See into the Future From NASA, ESA, and J. Anderson and R. van der Marel (STScI): The multicolor snapshot, at top, taken with Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s
Two weeks of news in one! Astrophysics and Gravitation: Did We Already Have the Data to Show Dark Matter Annihilation? Dan Hooper, & Lisa Goodenough (2010). Dark Matter Annihilation in The Galactic Center As Seen
Astrophysics and Gravitation: Early Universe was Overheated, says NASA Michael Shull, Kevin France, Charles Danforth, Britton Smith, & Jason Tumlinson (2010). Hubble/COS Observations of the Quasar HE 2347-4342: Probing the Epoch of He II Patchy
Astrophysics and Gravitation: Vacuum-Driven Evolution in Astrophysics William C. C. Lima, George E. A. Matsas, & Daniel A. T. Vanzella (2010). Awaking the vacuum in relativistic stars Physical Review Letters arXiv: 1009.1771v1 In a very
I know, I know, I switched back to writing these on Mondays again without telling anyone. It turns out, Wednesdays were a terrible choice of day for me. I swear I asked someone to fill
Astrophysics and Gravitation: Astrophysics, by General Mills Vella, D., & Mahadevan, L. (2005). The “Cheerios effect” American Journal of Physics, 73 (9) DOI: 10.1119/1.1898523 FOX News and a few other news agencies have discovered the
Astrophysics and Gravitation: What Supernova 1987A Left Behind France, K., McCray, R., Heng, K., Kirshner, R., Challis, P., Bouchet, P., Crotts, A., Dwek, E., Fransson, C., Garnavich, P., Larsson, J., Lawrence, S., Lundqvist, P., Panagia,