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Gig.U Network Brings Super High Speed Internet to 28 Universities
A group of American universities have banded together to offer their campuses high speed computer networks beyond anything that is currently commercially available. The Gig.U project will offer one-gigabit connections to university campuses and their surrounding areas, which the project hopes will draw companies to the areas. The New York Times reports that in the test program in a small area near Case Western, three startups moved to the neighborhood within three months.
Categories Arizona State University, Aspen Institute, Blair Levin, Case Western Reserve, Duke University, Elise Kohn, George Mason University, Gig.U, GigU, Indiana University, Michigan State University, North Carolina State University, University of Chicago, University of Florida, University of Hawaii, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, University of New Mexico, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Washington, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Astronmer Tomotsugu Goto Discovers Massive Black Hole Located 12.8 Billion Light Years Away
According to University of Hawaii astronomer Tomotsugu Goto there is a black hole about 12.8 billion light years away from us and it has the mass of one billion suns. This black hole is located in the center of a galaxy which is as big as the Milky Way. To find this galaxy, Goto used a 27 foot Subaru telescope at the Mauna Kea summit. The summit is located at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Goto mentioned that “it is surprising that such a giant galaxy existed when the Universe was only one-sixteenth of its present age, and that it hosted a black hole one billion times more massive than the sun. The galaxy and black hole must have formed very rapidly in the early universe.” Above is a picture taken of the black hole.
Categories Tomotsugu Goto, University of Hawaii
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