Apr 9 1992
From The Space Library
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope announced that they had spotted the gathering of swirling stars that is believed to be the gravitational signature of a black hole in a galaxy called M32. Todd R. Lauer of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories in Tucson, Arizona, and a scientist using the Hubble, said that based upon what he has seen so far, "I would be surprised if M32 turns out not to be a black hole." Concurrently, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory discovered 11 objects in space that constitute "a new class of objects-the gamma ray quasar." The new gamma ray quasars, some as far as 10 billion light-years away, are probably similar to the thousands of other quasars detected in recent years, but the nature of quasars is still debated. (AP, Apr 9/92; B Sun, Apr 9/92; LA Times, Apr 9/92; W Times, Apr 9/92; U Post, Apr 13/92; USA Today, Apr 9/92; CSM, Apr 14/92; NASA Release 92-46 and 92-47; NASA Note N92-28)
Seven scientists, engineers, and government officials told a congressional subcommittee that the often cited claim by National Science Foundation officials that the United States faces a major shortage of scientists and engineers was false. Witnesses told the hearing that the shortage that was to have begun a few years ago-and which was to have left the Nation with a "shortfall" of 675,000 scientists and engineers by 2010-never materialized. Quite the contrary, they said, there was now such a surplus of scientists and engineers that unemployment rates in some disciplines far exceeded those for the country as a whole. (W Post, Apr 9/92; B Sun, Apr 14/92)
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