When police searched a home in Upland as part of a recent burglary investigation, they weren’t looking for piles of cash or bags full of jewelry, but boxes of what has become the must-have item of the year. Within each of the 14 boxes taken from the home, Chino police said, were those little customizable monsters that are taking over …
Read More »
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified the earliest black hole found thus far, dating back to more than 13 billion years ago. The black hole and its home galaxy, together dubbed CAPERS-LRD-z9, existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang. Its properties could help researchers understand what the universe was like in that elusive early …
Read More »
We’ve all been enjoying these bright full moons of summer, but a black moon is now on the rise. Not an official astronomical term, a black moon refers to the second new moon in a single calendar month, or the third of four in one astronomical season. It’s essentially the dark side of a blue moon. The Aug. 22 new …
Read More »
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. Within practically every modern galaxy, a central supermassive black hole can be found. Our own Milky Way houses Sagittarius A*, which weighs in at just over 4 million solar masses. Although that might sound like an …
Read More »Astronomers Spot Possible Biggest Black Hole in the Universe SciTechDailyView Full Coverage on Google News Source link
Read More »
The Moon completes about 12.37 orbits of Earth each year. Most years see 12 new moons, but occasionally there are 13. When a season, defined as the period between a solstice and an equinox, contains four new moons, the fourth is called a black moon. The term, first used in astrological circles centuries ago to describe a mythical hidden moon, …
Read More »
The Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens: The newly discovered ultramassive blackhole lies at the centre of the orange galaxy. Far behind it is a blue galaxy that is being warped into the horseshoe shaped ring by distortions in spacetime created by the immense mass of the foreground orange galaxy. Credit: NASA/ESA It may be the most massive black hole ever found. …
Read More »
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Fermi bubbles are two enormous orbs of gas and cosmic rays that tower over the Milky Way, covering a region roughly as large as the galaxy itself. These giant space bubbles may be fueled by a strong outflow of matter from the …
Read More »
If there’s one thing old-school Call of Duty fans (like me) are tired of, it’s seeing cartoony and silly skins in the game. From WWE wrestlers, Beavis & Butthead, to even the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the franchise seemingly wants to be like Fortnite so bad, that it’s laughable at this point. It’s not just crossover skins either, as even …
Read More »
A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off alarm bells about the future of academic research, warning that the publication of fraudulent science is growing at a faster rate than that of legitimate research. Over the last four centuries, an implicit contract has been established between scientists and states: in exchange for producing knowledge useful for economic …
Read More »