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- adjective Insufficiently
luminous
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With current and upcoming millimeter wave telescopes (ex: ALMA), astronomers will be able to explore why our black hole is so underluminous, whether it is spinning and how fast, how well general relativity holds up in such a strong-field regime.
Archive 2009-01-08 Nicole 2009
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With current and upcoming millimeter wave telescopes (ex: ALMA), astronomers will be able to explore why our black hole is so underluminous, whether it is spinning and how fast, how well general relativity holds up in such a strong-field regime.
URSI Update #2 Nicole 2009
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Both articles involve white dwarf binaries and result in underluminous, short maxima supernovae.
Found: Theoretical Supernova Actually Exists | Universe Today 2009
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Astronomy & Astrophysics in 2009 ( "Weak lensing observations of potentially X-ray underluminous galaxy clusters," by J. Dietrich et al.).
Signs of the Times 2010
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