NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  June 5, 2000
Media Advisory m00-110


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES

  BLACK HOLES SHED LIGHT ON GALAXY FORMATION



VIDEO

  ***ALL TIMES EASTERN***


  VIDEO FILE FOR JUNE 5, 2000

    ITEM 1 - COMPTON GAMMA RAY OBSERVATORY DEORBIT BRINGS 
             SUCCESSFUL SCIENCE PROJECT TO AN END
    ITEM 2 - NASA MULTIMEDIA COMMERCIALIZATION ANNOUNCEMENT VIDEO 
             (REPLAY) -


  UPCOMING LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS



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NEWS RELEASES


BLACK HOLES SHED LIGHT ON GALAXY FORMATION

     Astronomers are concluding that monstrous black holes weren't 
simply born big but instead grew on a measured diet of gas and 
stars controlled by their host galaxies in the formative years of 
the universe. These results, gleaned from a NASA Hubble Space 
Telescope census of more than 30 galaxies with its powerful "black 
hole hunting" spectrograph, are painting a broad picture of a 
galaxy's evolution and its long and intimate relationship with its 
giant central black hole.


For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-088.txt 

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Don Savage (Phone: 
202/358-1727).
Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:  Nancy 
Neal (Phone: 301/286-0039).

Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD:  Ray 
Villard (Phone: 410/338-4514).



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UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS

June 7, Wednesday
- *1:00 - 2:00 p.m. - Urban Heat Island Live News Interviews with 
   Jeff Luvall - MSFC

June 8, Thursday
- 6:00 - 10:00 a.m. - Lightning Research Live News Interviews - 
  MSFC
- 4:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Electronic Nose Live News Interview - JPL


For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see 
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html



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