NASA Event to Discuss Black Holes and Extreme Objects

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Advisory: 2012-257b Aug. 23, 2012

NASA Event to Discuss Black Holes and Extreme Objects

The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-257b&cid=release_2012-257b

PADADENA, Calif. -- NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT),
Wednesday, Aug. 29, to announce new discoveries from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
(WISE). The discoveries are related to the distant universe, including supermassive black holes
and rare galaxies.

The briefing participants are:

-- Daniel Stern, astronomer, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Peter Eisenhardt, WISE project scientist, JPL
-- Jingwen Wu, astronomer, JPL
-- Rachel Somerville, astrophysics professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.

A link to the teleconference graphics will be available at the start of the event at
www.nasa.gov/wise .

For live audio of the teleconference, visit http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio .

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