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SMU professor receives NASA funding to study Active Galactic Nuclei


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IMAGE: SMU astrophysicist Krista Lynne Smith receives NASA funding to study distant galaxies built around massive black holes.
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DALLAS (SMU) - Krista Lynne Smith, an assistant professor of physics at SMU, has received a grant from NASA to study one of the most extreme objects in the universe - Active Galactic Nuclei.
These objects, called AGN for short, are galaxies with a central supermassive black hole feeding on gas from what s called an accretion disk.
The two-year grant of $215,000 will allow Smith to analyze data from NASA s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to answer a variety of questions about Active Galactic Nuclei and the gas that fuels them. ....

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NASA telescope designed to find exoplanets captures gamma-ray burst


NASA telescope designed to find exoplanets captures gamma-ray burst
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Zarrin Ahmed
The exoplanet-hunting TESS telescope spotted a bright gamma-ray burst late last year, the first the satellite has detected. Photo by NASA
April 30 (UPI) For the first time, a NASA telescope designed to find exoplanets has captured a gamma-ray burst, researchers said Friday.
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, was on an exoplanet-hunting mission searching for planets that might be able to support life outside of our solar system when it spotted the burst.
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The satellite, which turns its attention to a new strip of the sky every month, happened to be looking at the same part of the sky the burst occurred. ....

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