Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced that researchers using the Cray XT3 supercomputer at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center PSC have for the first time been able to integrate black holes into their large-scale cosmological simulations. Black holes and the high-energy quasars they spawn have been absent from the...
NASA scientists have reached a breakthrough in computer modeling that allows them to simulate what gravitational waves from merging black holes look like. The three-dimensional simulations, the largest astrophysical calculations ever performed on a N NASA scientists have reached a breakthrough in computer modeling that...
Sagittarius A is a super massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Over the course of a two-week observation, Chandra photographed more than a half-dozen X-ray flares near the hole's event horizon. Scientists believe that Sagittarius Sagittarius A is a super...
The "black hole" of environmental and asbestos liabilities for the property-casualty insurance industry is not as deep as once believed, A.M. Best analysts say. In a report which will be released later this month, Best's analysts have lowereThe "black hole" of environmental and asbestos liabilities ...
By Nick Goodway, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Nick Goodway, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
A week after unceremoniously dropping its PC microprocessor business into the "been there, done that" file, National Semiconductor still has some explaining to do.
The July 26 crash of a Federal Express [FedEx] B727 freighter at Tallahassee shows the utility of forward looking terrain avoidance warning TAWS technology, also known as enhanced ground proximity warning system EGPWS. Federal Express has been among the most proactive carriers to design, test, certify and install EGPWS on...
The investigation of Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield by the US Senate Subcommittee on Investigations has revealed that the financial troubles experienced by the nation's largest Blue Cross/Blue Shield plan likely are the result of corrupt practices by EmpirThe investigation of Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield by the US Senate Subcommittee on...