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| A Hubble Space Telescope image shows the Henize 2-10 galaxy, with a hidden supermassive black hole at its center. |
Dartmouth astrophysicists and their colleagues have not only proven that a supermassive black hole exists in a place where it isn't supposed to be, but in doing so have opened a new door to what things were like in the early universe.
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| WFIRST was the No. 1 rated large-scale mission in the 2010 decadal survey for astrophysics. Credit: NASA illustration |
Jon Morse is the chief executive of the nonprofit BoldlyGo Institute. He was director of NASA’s Astrophysics Division in the Science Mission Directorate from 2007 to 2011, and was project scientist for the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph at the University of Colorado from 1997 to 2003.
