NASA Announces Televised Black Hole Press Conference

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Jun 08, 2011, 04:58 ET

WASHINGTON, June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will hold a press conference at 1:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 15, to discuss new discoveries about giant black holes in the early universe.

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The event will be in the NASA Headquarters Webb auditorium located at 300 E Street SW in Washington. NASA Television and the agency's website will broadcast the event live.

The panelists for the announcement are:
-- Wilt Sanders, Chandra program scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington
-- Ezequiel Treister, astrophysicist, University of Hawaii, Hilo
-- Kevin Schawinski, astrophysicist, Yale University, New Haven
-- Priya Natarajan, professor, Yale University
-- Mitchell Begelman, professor, University of Colorado, Boulder

Reporters may attend the event, join by phone, or ask questions from participating NASA locations. To RSVP or obtain dial-in information, journalists must contact Trent Perrotto at [email protected] with their name, media affiliation and work telephone number by 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 15.

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/chandra

and

http://chandra.si.edu

SOURCE NASA