Spitzer Leads NASA's Great Observatories To Uncover Black Holes, Other Hidden Objects

Astronomers unveiled the deepest images from NASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope today and announced the detection of distant objects -- including several supermassive black holes -- that are nearly invisible in even the deepest images from telescopes operating at other wavelengths.

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