A collaborative new study involving astronomers at the University of Virginia, including Craig Sarazin (above), reveals a pair of supermassive black holes in the distant universe that are intertwined and spiraling toward a merger that will create a single super-supermassive black hole capable of swallowing billions of stars. “The two key questions about supermassive black holes are: Where do they come from and how do they grow over time?” Sarazin said. Full story.

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Acclaimed poet Alice Fulton (above) will be in residence at the University of Virginia next week as the 2005-2006 Rea Visiting Writer in Poetry. As part of her residency, Fulton will give a reading of her work on April 13 at 8 p.m. in the U.Va. Bookstore. The reading is free and open to the public. The Rea Visiting Writer program, of the Creative Writing program in U.Va.’s Department of English, is sponsored by Michael M. and Elizabeth Rea and the Dungannon Foundation. Full story.

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Hearways, a collaboration between Karen Van Lengen (above), dean of the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture, sound designer Ben Rubin and architect Joel Sanders, explores the relationship between sound and vision in the context of domestic architecture. Their work will be the subject of a Dean’s Forum Lecture, also titled “Hearways,” at U.Va.’s School of Architecture on Friday at 5 p.m. in Campbell Hall Room 153. Full story.

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