He’s a successful athlete in his own right, but Bachelor Nation fans may be surprised to learn that Mel Owens‘ father has an even more prolific sports career than the Season 2 Golden Bachelor. Mel Owens, a 66-year-old lawyer and a retired NFL linebacker from Laguna Hills, California, was announced as the Season 2 Golden Bachelor on April 2025. Before …
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Scientists Discover Giant Black Hole Growing 2.4X Faster Than Theoretical Limit : ScienceAlert
A supermassive black hole in the far reaches of the Universe has been found guzzling down material at one of the fastest rates ever seen. At the heart of a quasar galaxy called RACS J0320-35, just 920 million years after the Big Bang, the black hole appears to be devouring matter at 2.4 times the Eddington limit – the theoretical …
Read More »Assata Shakur, a fugitive Black liberation activist sought by US, dies in Cuba
Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died, her daughter and the Cuban government said. Shakur, who was born Joanne Deborah Chesimard, died Thursday in the capital city of Havana due to …
Read More »Turns Out the First Supermassive Black Holes Weren’t So Supermassive, Research Suggests
All galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their center. A new finding doesn’t contradict that observation, but it does suggest that we’ve been overestimating just how heavy some of these black holes actually are. Astrophysicists using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile found evidence that the black hole of an infant galaxy was ten times smaller than what …
Read More »"This Black Hole Eats 3,000 Suns Per Year": Scientists Terrified As Space Monster Breaks Physics While Growing Faster Than Possible – Rude Baguette
“This Black Hole Eats 3,000 Suns Per Year”: Scientists Terrified As Space Monster Breaks Physics While Growing Faster Than Possible Rude Baguette NASA’s Chandra Finds Black Hole With Tremendous Growth NASA (.gov) ‘Shocking’: Astronomers find monster black hole growing at 2.4 times the theoretical limit Live Science This Rapidly-Growing Black Hole Could Explain The JWST’s Puzzling Findings Universe Today “This Black Hole Eats 3,000 …
Read More »This won’t be the ‘normal’ Bethpage Black this Ryder Cup
It is fitting that Bethpage Black’s iconic “warning” sign was removed for the Ryder Cup. Due to unusually short rough and Thursday’s rain softening the greens, the pros will enjoy easier conditions than any local has ever experienced at the municipal course, long considered one of the toughest in the world. “This is not the normal Bethpage Black,” Harris English …
Read More »Donald Trump’s sports-focused second term comes to its most appropriate stop at the Ryder Cup and Bethpage Black
Farmingdale, New York — The first tee box at any Ryder Cup is one of the premier experiences in sports: A massive grandstand packed to the gills with golf fans practically exploding with patriotic pride, chanting and singing for their favorite players. Tucked in among those screaming thousands will be the golfer-in-chief: President Donald Trump. In his latest appearance at …
Read More »Our Universe could be trapped inside a black hole with no way out
The Big Bang may have actually been the explosive rebound of a collapsing black hole – one which our entire Universe could still be inside of. That’s the claim of a new study led by Enrique Gaztañaga at the University of Portsmouth. The paper suggests the Big Bang was actually a ‘Big Bounce’, when matter falling into a giant black …
Read More »‘You’re trying to birdie almost every hole’: This won’t be the Bethpage Black we’re used to
This isn’t your grandfather’s Bethpage Black. It’s not Brooks Koepka’s, either. When Koepka lifted the Wanamaker Trophy in 2019, he did so with a winning score of 8 under on the Black Course, which has not yielded a 72-hole mark lower than 10 under in the five PGA Tour-recognized events it’s hosted. When Tiger Woods won the U.S. Open here …
Read More »Rory McIlroy takes centre stage for Europe at Bethpage Black Ryder Cup
When Rory McIlroy revealed last month that he had been approached to be a playing Captain at future Ryder Cups it raised a few eyebrows. At just 36 and seemingly the peak of his powers having completed the career Grand Slam, the idea that he would not be focusing all his energies inside the ropes seemed strange to some. But …
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