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Heavens Above => Astronomy & Near Earth Phenomena => Topic started by: DataBot on May 07, 2012, 00:23:02 AM

Title: NASA's WISE mission sees skies ablaze with blazars
Post by: DataBot on May 07, 2012, 00:23:02 AM
NASA's WISE mission sees skies ablaze with blazars

Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).  The mission has revealed more than 200 blazars and has the potential to find thousands more.

Source: NASA's WISE mission sees skies ablaze with blazars (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120412192740.htm)