"We are getting a look at the everyday life of a supermassive black hole like never before, " said Frederick Baganoff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US, who presented the new data on behalf of an international team at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle.
Mr Swartz's family says the actions of both MIT and the Massachusetts US Attorney's office contributed to his death.
Mr Swartz's family issued a statement stating the actions of both MIT and the Massachusetts US Attorney's office had contributed to his death.
"All of us at MIT are extremely saddened by the death of this promising young man who touched the lives of so many, " Reif added.
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"I want to express very clearly that I and all of us at MIT are extremely saddened by the death of this promising young man who touched the lives of so many, " he said.
And if you were to say that something thousands of times more powerful than the one computer that thousands of us shared at MIT would fit in your pocket, people would think you were crazy.
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Meanwhile, here in the US, a team from MIT has developed a portable 3D printer that's so small it fits inside a suitcase.
The US government had previous funded MIT to do research into how carbon nanotubes could be used to detect nerve toxins including Sarin following a terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway which killed 12 people in 1995.
MIT's Nexi robot has been teaching us about social interaction for years, and has even done a stint with the US Navy.
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The spaceman was born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea and completed much of his education in England (Harrow and Cambridge University) before moving to the US, where he did a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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