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Giant worlds beyond the Solar System could be the probe we need to figure out how dark matter manifests in the Universe. According to a new study, one particular dark matter model could see the mysterious mass accumulating in the cores of giant planets, collapsing into tiny black holes destined to consume the surrounding material over time. If we can …

The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town overwhelmingly won election this week, four years after he says White residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve. Incumbent Mayor Patrick Braxton was elected as the mayor of Newbern, winning 66 votes to his opponent’s 26, according to results posted by the town. His …

Naomi Osaka has condemned Jelena Ostapenko’s comments during her courtside confrontation with Taylor Townsend at the US Open. The incident on Wednesday has been one of the most talked-about of the tournament, with Ostapenko accusing the American Townsend of having no education and no class after their second-round match. The comments, which Ostapenko justified as a reaction to Townsend not …

‘Our president is listening’: Handful of Black MAGA activists in Chicago catch Trump’s eye  Chicago Tribune Pritzker says ‘action will be met with a response’ after Trump threatens to send National Guard to Chicago  Fox News ICE asks for access to Chicago-area Navy base to assist operations  The Washington Post Trump’s planned Chicago blitz would use naval base to house ICE agents, possibly …

Originally, all content from Black Ops 6 was planned to carry over to Black Ops 7 so that people could maintain their progress between games. That decision has since been reverted. For most games, this would seem like a huge win. People who already have heavily customized their guns would get to keep their favorite weapon, and people who bought …

Thanks to a theory put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago and a happy coincidence, astronomers have discovered radiation being pumped out from the core of a quasar — within which a supermassive black hole lurks. The team, led by Matus Rybak of Leiden University, made the discovery while hunting for cold gas in the galaxy RXJ1131-1231, an …

In 2012, physicists showed that this paradox is tightly linked to the nature of the event horizon. They’d known since the 1970s that black holes emit radiation, and that this radiation probably somehow carries the scrambled information about the stuff that fell into the hole. Now they imagined what would happen if an astronaut who was about to cross the …

Trump’s D.C. Law Enforcement Takeover Has Black Parents on Edge  The New York Times D.C. students return to school as the city remains on edge amid Trump’s takeover  NBC News Schools reopen in DC with parents anxious over Trump’s armed patrols  AP News For some in D.C., first day of school to look different under Trump crackdown  The Washington Post ‘Leave our kids alone’: …

In the wake of the explosively popular Battlefield 6 Open Beta weekends that ran on Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, and PS5 throughout August, one aspect of its larger competitor FPS Call of Duty that’s come under quite a bit of scrutiny is its penchant for goofy skins that feel incredibly out of place in a military-themed shooter. With Battlefield …

If you want an indication that Battlefield 6 does have Call of Duty a bit spooked this year, look no further than a recent update from the game that seems to fall in line with that release. Even before Battlefield 6, there have been complaints that Call of Duty was pushing things too far with its Fortnite-ish crossover skins, which …