Portal:Current events/2003 January 9
January 9, 2003 (Thursday)
- UN Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix and International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohammed El Baradei give a report to the United Nations Security Council. They say that progress on the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is "inching forward" but that a more "pro-active" stance is required from the Iraqi government.[1]
- Astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center obtain the most detail view yet of a black hole "feeding" at the centre of a quasar.[2]
- ^ UK ambassador Jeremy Greenstock (2003-01-09). "Middle East | UN: Iraq must be pro-active". BBC News. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ^ "Science/Nature | Close-up on a quasar". BBC News. 2003-01-10. Retrieved 2012-02-11.