PHOTO OF THE DAY May 3, 2005  

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Photographer NASA/Jeffrey McClintock and Michael Garcia, SAO

"Chandra [NASA's orbiting x-ray observatory] detects intense x-rays emitted by gases as they are accelerated, heated, and sucked into a black hole."

—From "Super X-ray Vision," December 2002, National Geographic magazine


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