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2 weeks ago
Science

Do black holes explode? The 50-year-old puzzle that challenges quantum physics

Hawking radiation challenges black hole theory
Interplay of quantum physics and general relativity
www.vice.com
2 months ago
Science

Astronomers Discover Oldest Black Hole Ever Observed, and It's Feasting

Astronomers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, challenging their understanding of their formation and growth.
The black hole is believed to be over 13 billion years old, much older than scientists previously thought possible.
The black hole's rapid growth could be due to its exceptionally high rate of devouring dead stars and other material from its host galaxy.
Inverse
4 months ago
Science

Stellar-Sucking Vampire Stars May Thrive in Groups of Three

Vampire stars siphon the atmospheres off their stellar companions and may thrive in triple star systems.
Scientists at the University of Leeds used data from the Gaia satellite to make this discovery.
Analyzing Be stars can provide clues about star evolution and the formation of black holes.
www.scientificamerican.com
9 months ago
Science

Have Astronomers Seen the Universe's First Stars?

SUBSCRIBE: Apple | Spotify Lee Billings: Hi, and welcome to Cosmos, Quickly.This is Lee Billings.Carin Leong: And this is Carin Leong.[CLIP: Show theme music] Billings: Carin, thanks for being here.A quick question for you: What's super-duper bright and hundreds or even thousands of times heavier than our entire solar system, yet it's so hard to find that it has yet to be directly seen?
www.scientificamerican.com
9 months ago
Science

Listen to the Astonishing 'Chirp' of Two Black Holes Merging

When two black holes slam together, they don't make a sound.And yet, this is what we hear if we listen closely.[CLIP: Black hole chirp] Let's listen again.[CLIP: Black hole chirp] That chirp is what we heard from two black holes that slammed together about a billion light-years from Earth.The tone rises as they spiral closer together, and abruptly stops when they merge.
Futurism
10 months ago
Science

New Image of Black Hole Shows Colossal Jets Looking Like Tentacles

For the first time, astronomers have captured the powerful jets spewing out of a black hole and the black hole itself in the same image.Until now, they'd only been able to capture them in separate images.As detailed in a new paper in Nature, the image shows the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, also known as M87, and was put together using 2018 data collected by telescopes across the world, including the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile.
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Futurism
1 month ago
OMG science

James Webb Spots Something Lurking in Wreckage of Supernova

Scientists used JWST to discover neutron star from Supernova 1987A
Supernova 1987A explosion was so bright it hindered detection of the neutron star in cosmic dust.
www.vice.com
2 months ago
OMG science

Astronomers Discover Oldest Black Hole Ever Observed, and It's Feasting

Astronomers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, challenging their understanding of their formation and growth.
The black hole is believed to be over 13 billion years old, much older than scientists previously thought possible.
The black hole's rapid growth could be due to its exceptionally high rate of devouring dead stars and other material from its host galaxy.
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english.elpais.com
1 month ago
OMG science

The brightest object in the universe is a quasar with a black hole inside

The quasar J0529-4351 is the brightest and fastest-growing known quasar, with intense light emissions from a massive black hole.
Quasars were initially mistaken for nearby stars due to their brightness but are now recognized as powerful and distant objects.
www.vice.com
1 month ago
Science

Australian Researchers Discover 'Fastest Growing' Black Hole Ever Recorded

The fastest-growing black hole discovered is 17 billion times the mass of the Sun, consuming matter at one Sun per day.
The quasar linked to the black hole emits 500 trillion times the light of our Sun, making it the most luminous known object in the universe.
New York Post
1 month ago
OMG science

Newly discovered space object is either lightest black hole or heaviest neutron star

A mysterious unknown object has been discovered in our galaxy, potentially a breakthrough in the study of black holes.
The object is heavier than neutron stars but lighter than the smallest black holes, possibly representing a never-before-discovered radio pulsar - black hole binary.
Futurism
2 months ago
OMG science

Astronomers Puzzled by Inexplicable Deep Space Object

Astronomers have discovered an object that falls into a 'black hole mass gap,' too heavy to be a neutron star but too light to be a black hole.
This discovery challenges current theories about the formation and classification of celestial objects, and could lead to a reevaluation of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
www.vice.com
2 months ago
OMG science

Astronomers Discover Oldest Black Hole Ever Observed, and It's Feasting

Astronomers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, challenging their understanding of their formation and growth.
The black hole is believed to be over 13 billion years old, much older than scientists previously thought possible.
The black hole's rapid growth could be due to its exceptionally high rate of devouring dead stars and other material from its host galaxy.
www.vice.com
2 months ago
OMG science

Astronomers Discover Oldest Black Hole Ever Observed, and It's Feasting

Astronomers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, challenging their understanding of their formation and growth.
The black hole is believed to be over 13 billion years old, much older than scientists previously thought possible.
The black hole's rapid growth could be due to its exceptionally high rate of devouring dead stars and other material from its host galaxy.
Mail Online
1 month ago
Black Lives Matter

Supermassive black hole at our galaxy center looks like a football

The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is spinning so fast that it warps spacetime and takes on the shape of a football.
Researchers used a new method, called the 'outflow method', to estimate the mass and spin rate of Sagittarius A*, using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA).
www.vice.com
2 months ago
Black Lives Matter

Astronomers Discover Oldest Black Hole Ever Observed, and It's Feasting

Astronomers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, challenging their understanding of their formation and growth.
The black hole is believed to be over 13 billion years old, much older than scientists previously thought possible.
The black hole's rapid growth could be due to its exceptionally high rate of devouring dead stars and other material from its host galaxy.
www.vice.com
3 months ago
Black Lives Matter

Physicists Propose Way to Harvest Incredible Energy From Black Holes In Wild Paper

Researchers propose using tiny black holes as batteries and nuclear reactors
The method involves recharging the black hole by feeding it charged alpha particles
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Ars Technica
1 month ago
OMG science

Searching in infrared finds a big collection of black hole star destruction

Tidal disruption events (TDEs), where supermassive black holes tear apart stars, are thought to occur once every 10,000 to 100,000 years in any given galaxy.
An international team of researchers discovered 18 TDEs that previous searches had missed by checking galaxies in the infrared rather than the optical or X-ray bands.
www.nature.com
1 month ago
OMG science

First Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detector Gets Go-Ahead

The European Space Agency has approved the construction of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), the first space experiment to measure gravitational waves.
LISA will be able to observe gravitational waves of lower frequency than those detected on Earth, allowing it to spot phenomena such as black holes orbiting each other.
Inverse
2 months ago
OMG science

A Potential Source of the Milky Way's Highest-Energy Rays Is Mystifying Physicists

High-energy cosmic rays may come from black holes
Twin jets of matter ejected from black holes may be the source of some high-energy cosmic rays.
WIRED
3 months ago
OMG science

Dr. Nergis Mavalvala Helped Detect the First Gravitational Wave. Her Work Doesn't Stop There

Dr. Nergis Mavalvala's life's work as a physicist is to understand how everything in the universe came to be.
Black holes, which don't give off light, can be studied through gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime caused by their gravity.
www.fastcompany.com
11 months ago
OMG science

NASA discovery reveals an intergalactic gamma-ray burst that could be the brightest of all time

In October, astronomers recorded a singular cosmic explosion across the universea pulse of gamma radiation so fantastic that NASA scientists have dubbed it the BOAT, or brightest of all time.It was astonishing and consequential, and like most faraway whims of space and time whose existence finally make themselves known to our corner of the universeplanet Earthit was also far in the past, long gone from a fleeting moment.
www.fastcompany.com
11 months ago
OMG science

NASA discovery reveals an intergalactic gamma-ray burst that could be the brightest of all time

In October, astronomers recorded a singular cosmic explosion across the universea pulse of gamma radiation so fantastic that NASA scientists have dubbed it the BOAT, or brightest of all time.It was astonishing and consequential, and like most faraway whims of space and time whose existence finally make themselves known to our corner of the universeplanet Earthit was also far in the past, long gone from a fleeting moment.
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Ars Technica
9 months ago
OMG science

Astronomers spot new distant supernova via cosmic magnifying glass

Astronomers have recently identified a distant supernova located 10 billion light-years away from Earth by using a natural "cosmic magnifying glass".
This discovery marks the first time that astronomers have used a cosmic magnifying glass to identify a supernova.
By utilizing the cosmic magnifying glass, astronomers can observe more distant objects in the universe than ever before.
www.france24.com
1 year ago
Science

Astronomers discover ultramassive black hole using new technique

An artist's impression of a black hole, which distorts light passing near it creating a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing Handout / ESA/HUBBLE/AFP One of the largest black holes ever recorded has been discovered using a new technique that could spot thousands more of the insatiable celestial monsters in the coming years, according to astronomers.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Science

New Webb images illuminate the formation of a galaxy cluster

A team of researchers is publishing a paper based on new images taken by the Webb Space Telescope.The images reveal a dense concentration of matter in the early Universe, potentially indicating early stages in the formation of a galaxy cluster.And thanks to the spectrograph present, Webb was able to confirm that several galaxies previously imaged by Hubble were also part of the cluster.
www.vice.com
1 year ago
Science

Black Holes Create Mysterious Vortex Structures' That Could Open Portal' Into Dark Matter, Physicists Propose

The microscopic structure of black holes remains to be understood, Dvali and his colleagues said in the study.
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We believe thatthe vorticity property in black holes can be understood without entering into the technicalities of quantum gravitational computations.
Pythoninsider
1 year ago
Python

Python Insider: Python 3.11.0rc2 is now available

White holes appear in the theory of eternal black holes.
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Supermassive black holes are theoretically predicted to be at the centre of every galaxy and that possibly, a galaxy cannot form without one.
SFGATE
1 year ago
Science

Ghost-like black hole may have been discovered by UC Berkeley researchers

A UC Berkeley research team led by graduate student Casey Lam and astronomy associate professor Jessica Lu may have discovered the first "free-floating" black hole, Science Daily reported.
Theregister
10 months ago
Science

Astronomers have seen the largest explosion yet in space

Astronomers have observed the largest explosion yet in space that we're aware of, a years-long event involving a supermassive black hole estimated to be one billion times more massive than the Sun that continues to rage.The eruption, codenamed AT2021lwx, was first recorded by ground-based telescopes - the Zwicky Transient Facility in California, and the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Hawaii - in 2020.
www.theguardian.com
10 months ago
Science

Astronomers capture largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed

It started as an unremarkable flicker in the night sky.But closer observations revealed that astronomers had captured the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed, an event thought to have been triggered by a giant cloud of gas being gobbled up by a supermassive black hole.The flare-up, traced to 8bn light years away, is more than 10 times brighter than any known supernova and has so far lasted more than three years, making it the most energetic explosion on record.
www.thisislocallondon.co.uk
1 year ago
Science

Galaxies- all you need to know about them

The galaxy in which we live in- The Milky Way (Image: Reddit) While observing the night sky in a low bortle, you may be able to see a fuzzy band of light stretching across the sky.What you are looking at is the plane of our galaxy- The Milky Way.Our galaxy is home to an estimated 400 billion stars, with most younger stars lying in the centre of the plane of the galaxy- in the spiral arms where most of the galaxy's dust and gas, which clump together to create sites of star formation, is concentrated; relatively older stars are generally found in the outer areas of the plane- though some can be found in 'halos' of globular clusters around the outside of the Milky Way.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
World politics

Astronomers Find a Black Hole in Our Cosmic Back Yard

Almost but not quite in time for Halloween, astronomers announced on Friday that they had discovered the closest known black hole.It is a biggie, a shell of yawning emptiness 10 times as massive as the sun, orbiting as far from its own star as the Earth is from ours.Not to worry, however: This black hole is 1,600 light-years away, in the constellation Ophiuchus; the next nearest known black hole is about 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
Health

Bright, powerful burst of gamma rays detected by multiple telescopes

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1 year ago
Health

Webb telescope shows off Jupiter in new image

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www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
World politics

The Biggest Explosion in the Cosmos Just Keeps Going

It's a dog-eat-dog cosmos.Not two weeks ago, on May 3, astronomers reported observing a star that was in the process of swallowing one of its own planets.Just two days earlier, another team had described black holes that were ripping stars apart and consuming them in a process known as tidal disruption event, or T.D.E.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
World politics

Back Then, Baby Galaxies. Next, a Super-Mega Galactic Cluster?

Like basketball scouts discovering a nimble, super-tall teenager, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope reported recently that they had identified a small, captivating group of baby galaxies near the dawn of time.These galaxies, the scientists say, could well grow into one of the biggest conglomerations of mass in the universe, a vast cluster of thousands of galaxies and trillions of stars.
Bustle
10 months ago
Cars

If You Have A Messy Car, These Fan-Favorite Organizers Will Tidy It Up

Keeping your car organized helps ensure necessities like sunglasses, phones, wallets, and keys are easy to reach so you won't have to worry about losing anything to the black holes under and between the seats.The best car organizers are made of durable material, secure firmly to the vehicle to avoid rolling around when you're driving, and can be customized to meet your individual storage needs.
Theregister
11 months ago
Science

Just what the universe needs: A black hole with wind

Scientists have observed larger ring-like structures around the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87 than when it famously became the subject of a photoshoot in 2019.The study, published in the science journal Nature today, also reveals the influence of wind on the black hole's accretion jets - emitted by matter falling into the void - and could improve our understanding of the properties of black holes, the researchers said.
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
Science

Astronomers capture first image of jet being launched from edge of black hole

Astronomers have captured the first image showing a powerful jet being launched from the edge of a black hole's event horizon into intergalactic space.The observations of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) could help reveal how black hole jets, which are among the brightest objects in the universe, are created.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
OMG science

Ultramassive black hole discovered by UK astronomers

An ultramassive black hole about 30 billion times the mass of the Sun has been discovered by astronomers in the UK.Scientists at Durham University said the gargantuan black hole was one of the biggest ever found.The team described their findings, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, as extremely exciting.
Inverse
1 year ago
Science

Astronomers Use Optical Illusion to Unveil a Gargantuan Black Hole

Astronomers just found another case of something out there bigger than a supermassive black hole: ultramassive black holes, which are the true behemoths of the Universe, clocking in at over 10 billion times the mass of our Sun.While there aren't any fundamental differences between supermassive and ultramassive black holes besides their size, scientists sometimes use the term to set apart the really big ones.
Inverse
1 year ago
Science

What's Inside A Black Hole? Dark Energy, Some Physicists Suggest

The answer to a cosmological mystery might be lurking inside black holes.Black holes seem to gain mass even when there's nothing for them to feed on, as if they weren't bizarre enough already.And that weird habit may shed new light on dark energy, the mysterious force that pushes our universe to expand faster and faster - apparently defying gravity, which should be putting the brakes on our expanding universe.
Inverse
1 year ago
Science

Astronomers capture startling new detail of the first black hole

As matter swirls violently down toward the event horizon of a black hole, it forms an accretion disk, heating plasma to millions of degrees and blasting X-rays into space.But what exactly does the accretion disk of a black hole look like?A sandwich?Well, maybe.The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, launched last December as a collaboration between NASA and the Italian Space Agency, detects the polarization of X-rays, which lets astronomers understand how they reflect off the accretion disk as they're created.
Inverse
1 year ago
Science

Webb Telescope to investigate rogue black hole on the lam from its galaxy

In 2012, astronomers reported that cosmic forces had jettisoned the massive black hole CID-42 at a speed of several million miles per hour out of the center of its galaxy.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Scientists discover ultramassive black hole '30bn times the mass of the Sun'

An ultramassive black hole around 33 billion times the mass of the Sun has been discovered by astronomers in the UK.Scientists from Durham University said the gargantuan black hole is one of the biggest ever found.The team described its findings, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, as extremely exciting.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Professor Brian Cox receives Hawking Fellowship at University of Cambridge

Professor Brian Cox spoke of his dedication to continuing much of Professor Stephen Hawking's research after he was honoured with the Hawking Fellowship at the University of Cambridge.The 54-year-old is a professor of particle physics at the University of Manchester and a broadcaster, having presented a number of highly acclaimed science programmes for the BBC including Forces Of Nature and Stargazing Live.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

UK schoolboy gets highest possible IQ score - beating Einstein and Hawking

A Leeds schoolboy said he feels special after beating geniuses Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking in an IQ test.Yusuf Shah, 11, said he hopes to study maths at Oxford or Cambridge after getting 162 in the Mensa test.Professor Hawking, the theoretical physicist known for his work on black holes, is said to have had an IQ of 160.
english.elpais.com
1 year ago
Science

Black holes: The mysterious behemoths controlling our galaxies

It was only last year that astronomers were finally able to unveil the first pictures of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy.But you couldn't actually see the black hole itself, not directly.That's because it is so dense that its gravitational pull prevents even light from escaping.
Futurism
1 year ago
Science

Hubble May Have Spotted a Supermassive Black Hole Breaking Free From Its Galaxy

Scientists using the ever-faithful Hubble Space Telescope (HST) believe they've spotted their most terrifying discovery to date: A "rogue" supermassive black hole, unshackled from the heart of its galaxy, prowling across the cosmos at nearly a thousand miles per second.If their findings hold water, it would make for some of the best evidence to date of a supermassive black hole being ejected from its host galaxy.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
UK politics

Defence review at risk of delay amid funding row

A planned refresh of the government's integrated review of defence and foreign policy is at risk of being delayed until after the budget in mid-March amid a row over funding and a lack of clarity over its aims.It had been expected that the fresh look at Britain's geopolitical strategy, originally announced by Liz Truss and inherited by Rishi Sunak, would be released on 7 March more than a week before the 15 March annual financial statement.
Fatherly
1 year ago
Fathers

This Metal AF Hubble Video Reveals A Black Hole Devouring A Star

Have you ever wanted to know what it looks like when a black hole eats a star?Well, look no further.Thanks to NASA's incredible Hubble Space Telescope, there's a video of a black hole doing exactly that.On Jan. 12, 2023, NASA shared a video and images of a star being torn apart and devoured by a black hole.
Fatherly
1 year ago
Fathers

This Otherworldly JWST Photo Reveals A Beautiful Wreath Of Stars

NASA has released another photo showing the absolute wonder of space.Taken from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the new image shows off a festive wreath that looks like a magical star for us laymen and offers unique opportunities for scientists to learn more about black hole growth and star formation.
Fatherly
1 year ago
Fathers

Astounding JWST Photo Shows Strip Of Galaxies Like Never Before Seen - Literally

This week, NASA released yet another stunning image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) showing a strip of galaxies - the North Ecliptic Pole - in a way we've never seen before.The new image comes courtesy of the agency's "Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science" ( PEARLS) research program.
Fatherly
1 year ago
Fathers

NASA Just Revealed What Black Holes Sound Like And It's... Haunting!

Have you ever wondered what a black hole sounds like?Well, if you were wondering - or if you thought it was ominously silent - NASA has found out, and yes, black holes actually make noise.
Fatherly
1 year ago
Fathers

The 9 Best YouTube Channels For Kids

YouTube is an amazing resource.With the click of a button, it gives us access to videos of everything from beer-making tutorials to Jimmy Hendrix playing the national anthem at Woodstock.
The Verge
1 year ago
Science

Hubble telescope observes a hungry supermassive black hole devouring a star

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Such an event happens only a few times every 100,000 years in a galaxy with a dormant black hole at its center, but recently, one such event was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.While some stars reach the end of their lives with a bang, exploding in an enormous supernova, others end in a whimper, puffing up and throwing off material before shrinking and cooling to a small core.
www.mercurynews.com
1 year ago
East Bay (California)

What's new in kitchen design

It has served as the heart of the home in communities around the world for centuries.And because the kitchen is the most-used area of the house, designing it requires special attention.Doing so allows the kitchen to keep its luster and that feeling of newness that the homeowner loves about it on day one.
The Verge
1 year ago
Gadgets

OnePlus 11 arrives in China with a "black hole"-inspired camera bump

The OnePlus 11, the latest flagship smartphone from the Oppo sub-brand, has been announced for the Chinese market ahead of its global launch next month.Its feature set doesn't hint at any major departures from OnePlus' previous flagships, but the company has opted for a bold new circular design for the phone's rear camera bump, which its press release says is "inspired by black holes."
Medium
1 year ago
Graphic design

How a Logo Design Genius Made Me Cringe at My Portfolio

SAGI HAVIV | LOGO | DESIGN | BRANDING | PORTFOLIO
A farm fresh designer, un-controllably confident, filled to the brim with an entrepreneurial courage, ready to take on the market by storm with my design game.That dopamine and adrenaline rush was just spot on!And then my imaginary megalith got smashed faster than a burger king's patty.
Acm
1 year ago
Digital life

The New Chatbots Could Change the World. Can You Trust Them?

This month, Jeremy Howard, an artificial intelligence researcher, introduced an online chatbot called ChatGPT to his 7-year-old daughter.It had been released a few days earlier by OpenAI, one of the world's most ambitious A.I. labs.He told her to ask the experimental chatbot whatever came to mind.She asked what trigonometry was good for, where black holes came from and why chickens incubated their eggs.
Acm
1 year ago
Digital life

Physicists Create 'the Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine'

In an experiment that ticks most of the mystery boxes in modern physics, a group of researchers announced on Wednesday that they had simulated a pair of black holes in a quantum computer and sent a message between them through a shortcut in space-time called a wormhole.Physicists described the achievement as another small step in the effort to understand the relation between gravity, which shapes the universe, and quantum mechanics, which governs the subatomic realm of particles.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
Health

Rare cosmic collision acted like one of the factories of gold' in the universe

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.An unusual bright blast of light detected by multiple telescopes in December 2021 was the result of a rare cosmic explosion that created a wealth of heavy elements such as gold and platinum.
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1 year ago
Health

Graveyard of ancient stars uncovered in the Milky Way

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1 year ago
Health

The first Webb images got a psychedelic, X-ray vision makeover

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1 year ago
Health

'Black hole police' discover dormant black hole outside our galaxy for first time

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TNW | House-Of-Talent
1 year ago
Web development

Forget about algorithms and models - learn how to solve problems first

Almost weekly a friend or an acquaintance asks me, "I want to learn to code; which language should I start with?"More or less bi-weekly I get a DM on LinkedIn starting with, "My son should start programming; what is the best language for him?"It's not just people who've never coded before.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
OMG science

No, physicists didn't make a real wormhole. What they did was still pretty cool

Wormholes are a classic trope of science fiction in popular media, if only because they provide such a handy futuristic plot device to avoid the issue of violating relativity with faster-than-light travel.In reality, they are purely theoretical.Unlike black holes-also once thought to be purely theoretical-no evidence for an actual wormhole has ever been found, although they are fascinating from an abstract theoretical physics perceptive.
Futurism
1 year ago
Science

Black Hole In "Hyper-Feeding Frenzy" Chews Through Stars and Shoots Its Leftovers Towards Earth

Cosmic Combine
Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists have witnessed a black hole more than 8.5 billion light years away gorging on a star - the farthest distance at which astronomers have ever observed such an event.In fact, they were only able to spot the grisly feeding in visible light because leftovers of the kill were ejected via a jet that happened to be pointed right at Earth, leading to the publication of two separate studies in the journals Nature and Nature Astronomy.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Science

Astronomers capture black hole gobbling up a star in a "hyper-feeding frenzy"

Earlier this year, astronomers picked up an unusually bright signal in the X-ray, optical, and radio regimes, dubbed AT 2022cmc.They've now determined that the most likely source of that signal is a supermassive black hole gobbling up a star in a "hyper-feeding frenzy," shooting out jets of matter in what's known as a tidal disruption event (TDE).
Theregister
1 year ago
OMG science

Bright light from black holes caused by particle shock waves

Scientists have reported a "huge leap forward" in the understanding of light and other electromagnetic radiation emitted by black holes using NASA's newly deployed $188m space telescope IXPE.Beams of electrons smash into slower-moving particles causing a shock wave which results in electromagnetic radiation across frequency bands from X-rays to visible light, according to a research paper published in Nature this week.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
OMG science

We now know why black hole jets make high-energy radiation

Active galactic nuclei, powered by the supermassive black holes they contain, are the brightest objects in the Universe.The light originates from jets of material hurled out at nearly the speed of light by the environment around the black hole.In most cases, these active galactic nuclei are called quasars.
Inverse
1 year ago
Science

Scientists are finally decoding the secrets within the Milky Way's supermassive black hole

Black holes keep their secrets close.They imprison forever anything that enters.Light itself can't escape a black hole's hungry pull.It would seem, then, that a black hole should be invisible - and taking its picture impossible.So great fanfare accompanied the release in 2019 of the first image of a black hole.
Design Milk
1 year ago
Design

The Empyrean Light Is Inspired by a Black Holes' Effect on Light

Outer space continues to be a source of mystery and inspiration for all of us gazing up into the sky.For designer Laurids Gallée ( whom we've featured before), it moved him to create his latest design, a ceiling light called Empyrean suspended 01.The futuristic fixture is inspired by Gallée's observations of the behavior of light around black holes and how it warps and distorts itself when in close proximity.
Posting and Toasting
1 year ago
New York Knicks

Nets 112, Knicks 85: "Nets got that new coach smell"

A black hole and a dying star nearly collided last night.It's not clear how close to death the star actually is; all stars are dying, after all, as are we.Though they're borough neighbors, their two energies couldn't be more different.Last night the star beat the black hole, 112-85.The contest was over barely after it'd begun.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
OMG science

What the image of the Milky Way's black hole really shows

Black holes keep their secrets close.They imprison forever anything that enters.Light itself can't escape a black hole's hungry pull.It would seem, then, that a black hole should be invisible-and taking its picture impossible.So great fanfare accompanied the release in 2019 of the first image of a black hole.
Futurism
1 year ago
Science

Scientists Discover Closest Known Black Hole to Earth

New Neighbor
Earthlings, meet your new - well, newly discovered - celestial neighbor: an absolutely massive black hole.According to The New York Times, it's ten times bigger than our Sun, and sitting roughly 1,600 light years away from our Pale Blue Dot in the constellation Ophiuchus, it's the closest to our home planet ever discovered.
Pension Plan Puppets
1 year ago
Toronto Maple Leafs

Sunday FTB: Houston Astros tie up the World Series

Going into the World Series, the Houston Astros were heavy favourites over the Philadelphia Phillies.They had the best record in American League, and the second best in the entire MLB.They breezed through the playoffs beating Seattle and the New York Yankees without losing a single game.They had incredible pitching, with maybe their hitting being a bit of a weakness.
Inverse
1 year ago
OMG science

This stunning timelapse reveals how the universe has changed in just 12 years

The Universe is over 13 billion years old, so a 12-year slice of that time might seem uneventful.But a timelapse movie from NASA shows how much can change in just over a decade.Stars pulse, asteroids follow their trajectories, and distant black holes flare as they pull gas and dust toward themselves.
Futurism
1 year ago
Science

This 12-Year Time-Lapse of the Entire Night Sky is Seriously Blowing Our Minds

NASA just released a 12-year time-lapse of the entire sky, capturing the evolution of fascinating cosmic objects like brown dwarfs and even black holes.
Inverse
1 year ago
Science

"Brightest of all time" gamma-ray burst jolts astronomers into high gear

A powerful flash of radiation from a dying star sent astronomers into a flurry of fast-paced activity last week, as they raced to gather data on the explosion's afterglow.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Science

A black hole is releasing some strange burps, baffling scientists

Artist's illustration of what it looks like when a supermassive black hole "spaghettifies" a star.
www.vice.com
1 year ago
OMG science

Massive Energy Beam Pointed at Earth Appears to Break the Laws of Physics, Scientists Say

Image: Concept art of the neutron star merger and jet.
Image: Elizabeth Wheatley (STScI) ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs.
Inverse
1 year ago
Science

Watch a black hole spew a stream of matter on a nearby galaxy

It doesn't take much to be a good neighbor.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
OMG science

Black holes can't trash info about what they swallow-and that's a problem

No information about the original material that created the black hole survives.Whether the black hole was formed from dying stars or squashed kittens, it doesn't practically matter.If I tell you the mass, electric charge, and spin (i.e., angular momentum) of a black hole, we're done.Just three numbers-that's all it takes to completely, unequivocally, 100 percent describe a black hole in general relativity.In the traditional, classical view of black holes, all this business about information is not a problem at all.
www.aljazeera.com
1 year ago
Science

What can black holes tell us about our universe?

On Wednesday, September 14 at 19:30 GMT: A black hole is believed to be the most extreme environment in the universe an area in space where the force of gravity is so intense, not even light can escape.
kvue.com
1 year ago
Science

Webb Telescope captures thousands of never-before-seen young stars in the Tarantula Nebula

The Tarantula Nebula houses the hottest and most massive stars known to astronomers.
Pinstripe Alley
1 year ago
New York Yankees

Ask Pinstripe Alley: Yankees mailbag questions request

The brief glimpse of hope near the end of August has already sputtered out on this team.
the Guardian
1 year ago
Science

James Webb telescope gives a stunning look at galaxies far, far away

n Christmas Day last year, 30 years after its conception, the James Webb space telescope launched from French Guiana.On 28 December, it went past the moon.
Inverse
1 year ago
Science

Look! New image shows an elusive black hole behavior for the first time

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope gave us the first-ever image of a singularity, peering at light emitted just outside the boundary of the supermassive black hole M87.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
OMG science

"Black widow" neutron star devoured its mate to become heaviest found yet

Astronomers have determined the heaviest neutron star known to date, weighing in at 2.35 solar masses, according to a recent paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Stock Investors Better Hope a Recession Has Started

A slanging match has broken out about whether the US economy is in recession.
MarTech
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Google again delays third-party cookie deprecation

Google has pushed back its self-imposed deadline of the end of 2023 for the deprecation of third-party cookies.It will now "begin" to phase them out in the second half of 2024.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
OMG science

How one institution keeps claiming math's highest award

Even before this year's Fields Medal winners announcement, the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) or the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies, boasted a remarkable statistic.
the Guardian
1 year ago
Science

First dormant black hole found outside the Milky Way

A dormant black hole nine times the mass of the Sun has been found outside the Milky Way for the first time, in what researchers have called a "very exciting discovery".
Washington Post
1 year ago
Science

Take a cosmic tour inside the images captured by NASA's Webb telescope

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Inverse
1 year ago
Science

Astronomers discover an unsettling black hole that defies expectation

Black holes.They used to be theoretical up until the first one was found and confirmed back in the late 20th Century.Now, astronomers find them all over the place.
Inverse
1 year ago
Science

How the Webb Telescope will unveil the mysteries of cosmic star-making factories

The James Webb Space Telescope is less than a week away from delivering its first science images on July 12, 2022.
The Marginalian
1 year ago
Inspiration

The Beginning and the End: Robinson Jeffers's Epic Poem About the Interwoven Mystery of Mind and Universe

"We forget that nature itself is one vast miracle transcending the reality of night and nothingness," the anthropologist and philosopher of science Loren Eiseley wrote in his poetic meditation on life in 1960.
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