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17 Jun 2002
Raym Confirming the presence of yet another super-massive black hole in the universe, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have also found unexpected new mysteries. The black hole and an 800 light-year-wide spiral-shaped disk of dust fueling it, are slightly offset from the center of their host galaxy, NGC 4261, located 100 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Virgo.
This discovery is giving astronomers a ringside seat to bizarre, dynamic processes that may involve a titanic collision and a runaway black hole. This relatively nearby galaxy could shed light on how far more distant active galaxies and quasars produce their prodigious amounts of energy. The results are being presented this week by the team consisting of Laura Ferrarese and Holland Ford of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, and Walter Jaffe of the Leiden University, the Netherlands, at a press conference at the European Space Agency (ESA), Paris, in conjunction with the "Science With Hubble Space Telescope II" workshop. ond Wang to head OptoSigma Optical Coating.
Dr. Ran Hong (Raymond) Wang joins OptoSigma Corporation as manager of Optical Coating. Wang will establish a state-of-the-art optical coating facility to provide laser quality coatings for research and manufacturing applications. Previous to joining OptoSigma (Santa Ana, California), Wang spent 12 years developing high performance thin film coatings. Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. in Thin Film Science from the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center.
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