NASA Hosts Media Teleconference About Black Hole Studies

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Advisory: 2013-071b Feb. 25, 2013

NASA Hosts Media Teleconference About Black Hole Studies

The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-071&cid=release_2013-071

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST), Wednesday, Feb. 27, to announce black hole observations from its newest X-ray telescope, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray telescope.

The briefing participants are:

-- Fiona Harrison, NuSTAR principal investigator, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Guido Risaliti, astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.
-- Arvind Parmar, head of Astrophysics and Fundamental Physics Missions Division, European Space Agency

Visuals will be posted at the start of the teleconference on NASA's NuSTAR site: http://www.nasa.gov/nustar .

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's website at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio .

Audio and visuals will be streamed live online at: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 .

For more information about NuSTAR, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nustar . For more information about the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, visit: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/XMM-Newton_overview .

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