Its very good to have your company. We start in morocco, where rescuers are scrambling to find survivors under the rubble after a huge earthquake on friday. The death toll has just been updated and its risen to 2,122 people. There are also more than 2,000 injured. Small Rural Communities remain cut off by rock falls and there are reports of entire villages flattened. 0ur Correspondent, nick beake, has made it to a community in the Atlas Mountains and sent us this update. Sniffer dogs have been brought in. They belong to spanish firefighters who are the First International rescue teams to arrive here. Im talking in a really quiet voice because in a different part of this devastated village, theyre listening out to see if there are any signs of life. But really, hope is fading extremely quickly. Weve been told that 200 people used to live here. 90 are confirmed to have died. Lots more are missing and the remainder are in hospital. When you look at this, you realise you simply couldnt hav
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By combining forefront X-ray observations with state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations of the buildup of galaxies over cosmic history, researchers have provided the best modeling to date of the growth of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of galaxies.
By combining forefront X-ray observations with state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations of the buildup of galaxies over cosmic history, researchers have provided the best modeling to date of the growth of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of galaxies. Using this hybrid approach, a research team led by Penn State astronomers has derived a complete picture of black-hole growth over 12 billion years, from the universe s infancy at around 1.8 billion years old to now at 13.8 billion years old.