... This page contains pictures and text to accompany the press release entitled "some black holes are pink", which was presented as part of the Fresh Science event, ScienceNow! ... I first show colour pictures of the pink black holes (and of some blue and yellow ones for comparison. ... If you are having this trouble, I've included pictures below with stretched colour maps, to emphasise the colours: these should print better. (jpeg image, 29kb) . ... Quasar (black hole) PKS 1133-172. ...

... Printed in U.S.A. THE STELLAR DISK THICKNESS OF LOW SURFACE BRIGHTNESS GALAXIES D. Bizyaev 1,2,3 and S. Kajsin 4 Received 2003 October 23; accepted 2004 June 9 ABSTRACT We present surface photometry results for a sample of 11 edge-on galaxies observed with the 6 m telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia. ... We find from a comparison of photometric scales that the stellar disks of LSB galaxies are thinner than those of high surface brightness ( HSB) galaxies. ... UGC 11301 .. ...