NASA Hosts Media Teleconference About Black Hole Studies

NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Feb. 27, to announce black hole observations from its newest X-ray telescope, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray telescope.
 
The briefing participants are:
 
-- Fiona Harrison, NuSTAR principal investigator, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
-- Guido Risaliti, astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.
-- Arvind Parmar, head of Astrophysics and Fundamental Physics Missions Division, European Space Agency
 
For dial-in information, media representatives should e-mail their name, affiliation and telephone number to J.D. Harrington at j.d.harrington@nasa.gov by noon Feb. 27.
 
Visuals will be posted at the start of the teleconference on NASA's NuSTAR site:
 

http://www.nasa.gov/nustar 

 
Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's website at:
 

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio 

 
Audio and visuals will be streamed live online at:
 

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 

 
For more information about the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, visit:
 

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/XMM-Newton_overview

Media Contacts

J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-5241
j.d.harrington@nasa.gov
 
Whitney Clavin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-4673
whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov