For the record - June 19, 2011
“Les Miserables”: In the June 19 Arts & Books section, a graphic with facts about “Les Miserables” says the show won eight Tony Awards in 1997. The correct year was 1987. The
Black holes: An article in the June 18 Section A about astronomers’ detection of black holes dating to the early universe said that X-rays, unlike visible or infrared light, can escape the powerful gravitational pull of a black hole. In fact, all such forms of light, or electromagnetic radiation, travel at the same speed and behave similarly in the presence of a black hole. Matter falling in toward the black hole generates electromagnetic radiation, which we are able to detect in the form of X-rays.
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