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eonlabs writes:
Torrent users being blamed for illegally downloading Farcry are fighting back. In a 96 page lawsuit, the lawyers at Dunlap, Grubb, and Weaver are being accused of 'extortion, fraudulent omissions, mail fraud, wire fraud, computer fraud and abuse, racketeering, fraud upon the court, abuse of process, fraud on the Copyright Office, copyright misuse, unjust enrichment, and consumer protection violations.'
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eonlabs writes:
The BBC has an article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7574255.stm on the formation of stars in close proximity to a super massive black hole.
Their formation has not been well understood until now, but with the help of a year of supercomputer time, scientists have been able to model the interstellar processes needed to produce them. The results not only match up well with observations, but provide clues as to how their formation is remotely possible.
For those who want some background on the type of black hole involved, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_blackhole
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The simulations...followed the evolution of two separate giant gas clouds up to 100,000 times the mass of the Sun, as they fell towards the supermassive black hole. ...
The disrupted clouds form into spiral patterns as they orbit the black hole....In these conditions, only high mass stars are able to form and these stars inherit the eccentric orbits from the elliptical disc.
An interesting read!
