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WISE-watchers munch on hot DOGs

The latest data release from the Wide-Field Infrared Explorer has NASA almost as excited as a Mars landing, with the space agency trumpeting “millions” of new black holes, among other discoveries. Comparing the infrared received by hot dust-obscured galaxies – “hot DOGs” – to normal galaxies, the authors of this paper at Arxiv …

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Thursday 30th August 2012 12:38 GMT Anonymous Coward

So it's literraly...

... dust on the lens?!

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Thursday 30th August 2012 12:48 GMT Anonymous Coward

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Did we just find the missing mass in the universe?

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