Timothy Spall & Penlee crew 2009 (Credit RNLI)
Date: 25/08/2011
Author: Amy Ross, Divisional Media Relations Manager
Sheerness inshore lifeboat yesterday evening went out to help Timothy Spall who was filming the last episode for his BBC4 programme – “Timothy Spall: Back at Sea.”
August 25, 2011 (JST)
Scientific paper in Nature using
the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) on Kibo and
the Swift satellite (USA) observations
– First observation of a massive black hole swallowing a star –
The Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) on Kibo, in coordination with the
gamma-ray burst satellite Swift (USA), observed the instant that a massive
black hole swallowed a star for the first time in the world, located in the
center of a galaxy 3.9 billion light years away. This result was published in
Nature online, issued on August 25 Japan time. The title of the paper is
“Relativistic Jet Activity from the Tidal Disruption of a Star by a Massive
Black Hole”.
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