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 E-Mail IMAGE: Artists conception of a rotating black hole accreting matter via an accretion disk and emitting a jet. view more  Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Black holes are considered amongst the most mysterious objects in the universe. Part of their intrigue arises from the fact that they are actually amongst the simplest solutions to Einsteins field equations of general relativity. In fact, black holes can be fully characterized by only three physical quantities: their mass, spin and c...

Businesspeople on the move in RI, week of Dec. 27 The Providence Journal University of Rhode Island Gaurav Khanna recently was named the founding director of research computing at the University of Rhode Island. He comes to URI from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he served as a professor of physics and co-director of the university’s Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island Jenny Bautista, of Pawtucket, recently was...