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April 19, 2004

Black Holes in the Cores of Nearby Galaxies

Dr. Claire Max
University of California, Santa Cruz

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Dr. Claire Max of the University of California, Santa Cruz and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will describe how adaptive optics removes blurring from turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere and reveals supermassive black holes in the cores of nearby galaxies.