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Leopard seals sing songs that are similar to nursery rhymes

Leopard seals sing songs that are similar to nursery rhymes

Leopard seals, some of the loneliest animals in Antarctica, may have more in common with us than we thought. A new study reveals that these massive, solitary predators spend hours underwater each day singing songs that echo the structure of the nursery rhymes we sing to children. The discovery comes from researchers at UNSW Sydney. The team analyzed old recordings …

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Black holes don’t just swallow light, they sing. And we just learned the tune

Black holes don’t just swallow light, they sing. And we just learned the tune

Black holes embody the ultimate abyss. They are the most powerful sources of gravity in the universe, capable of dramatically distorting space and time around them. When disturbed, they begin to “ring” in a distinctive pattern known as quasinormal modes: ripples in space-time that produce detectable gravitational waves. In events like black hole mergers, these waves can be strong enough …

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