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In reality, a black hole’s gravitational influence is limited. Like any other massive object, its pull weakens with distance. According to NASA, even the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A, only strongly affects the stars in its immediate neighbourhood. Located about 26,000 light years from Earth, it poses no threat to our planet. Most …

A black hole’s bizarre “heartbeat” is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave. Observations of IGR J17091-3624 — a black hole in a binary system roughly 28,000 light-years from Earth — were taken using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). Nicknamed the “heartbeat” black hole for its dramatic, rhythmic pulses in brightness, the object feeds on matter stolen …

The next Nebraska football alternate uniform is here. The Huskers are wearing all-black alternates for the Nov. 1 game against USC. This will be the first trip to Lincoln for the Trojans since 2007. You can run, but you can’t hide. pic.twitter.com/WrfZJp2E8r — Nebraska Football (@HuskerFootball) August 15, 2025 The jersey is similar to the standard uniform, with two white …

Prosecutors will take “no further action” against a Florida sheriff’s deputy in the arrest of a Black college student pulled from his car and beaten by officers during a February traffic stop. The actions of Officer D. Bowers of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office did not constitute a crime, according to an investigative report released by the State Attorney’s Office for …

The upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will not be available on Switch 2 at launch, an insider says. Dealabs writer billbil-kun, who has a lengthy track record of accurately reporting release information, says that despite Microsoft‘s pledge to bring the Call of Duty series to Nintendo, they can ‘confirm’ that there’ll be no Switch 2 version of the …

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest, most distant black hole yet – and it’s surprisingly monstrous for its time. Residing in a galaxy called CAPERS-LRD-z9, it was already approximately 300 million times the mass of the Sun just 500 million years after the Big Bang, when the baby Universe was just 3 percent of its current age. Additionally, this discovery sheds …

Scientists may have spotted a never-before-seen kind of supernova, after using a Spotify-like artificial intelligence (AI) to scan the skies for strange activity. The AI unearthed signs of what could have been a huge star blowing up just as it was attempting to gulp down a nearby black hole. The stellar explosion, dubbed SN 2023zkd, was spotted in July 2023 …

Federal Court Delivers Major Win for Black Voters in Louisiana State Redistricting Battle  Democracy Docket Appeals panel declines Louisiana’s invitation to gut Voting Rights Act  The Hill Supreme Court poised to rehear voting rights case  upi.com SCOTUS date set for arguments in Louisiana’s redistricting case  Baton Rouge Business Report The Supreme Court Is About To Deal A Final Blow To A 60-Year-Old Law  HuffPost Source …

Black Ops 7’s campaign finale will allegedly be a 32-player multiplayer extraction mission for the first time in the franchise’s history. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is set in 2035 and follows David Mason’s team through Japan and the fictional city of Avalon. The campaign continues the story after Black Ops II, mixing tense espionage with high-tech warfare. Multiplayer …

New type of supernova detected as black hole causes star to explode  Reuters Why the death of this star is very, very strange  The Washington Post AI helps astronomers make a potentially major find — an exploding star being attacked by a black hole  Space A peculiar supernova prompts new theories about the cosmos  USA Today Star Trying to Swallow a Black Hole May …