A supermassive black hole is racing across the universe at 110,000 mph (177,000 km/h), and the astronomers who spotted it don’t know why. The fast-moving black hole, which is roughly 3 million times heavier than our sun, is zipping through the center of the galaxy J0437+2456, about 230 million light-years […]
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Thousands of craters scar the Koźle Basin, remnants of the war’s devastation. Toward the end of World War II, Allied planes dropped tens of thousands of bombs on a region of Germany that’s now part of Poland, and the devastation is recorded in thousands of craters that remain to this […]
Apple Inc said on Wednesday (Mar 17) it allotted US$2.8 billion raised from “green bonds” that last year funded 17 projects. It said these projects will generate 1.2 gigawatts of renewable energy. It said the projects will avoid an average of 921,000 metric tons of carbon emissions each year, which […]
TOKYO: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday (Mar 17) that China was acting aggressively and repressively, citing its actions in the East and South China Seas where it has territorial disputes with Japan and other Asian nations. Speaking to a roundtable of Japanese journalists in Tokyo, Blinken […]
LOS ANGELES: Golfer Tiger Woods said on Tuesday he is back home and continuing his recovery after suffering severe leg injuries in a car accident last month. “Happy to report that I am back home continuing my recovery,” the 45-year-old golf great said on Twitter. “I will be recovering at […]
US chat show The Talk has been taken off air for two days following a row between Sharon Osbourne and one of her co-hosts about Piers Morgan. Osbourne was one of the first people to voice support for Morgan over his criticism of the Duchess of Sussex. That led to […]
ROME: Italy is seeing a steady rise in coronavirus infections but a national vaccination campaign and tougher restrictions mean numbers should start improving in late spring, the health minister said. Italy, the first Western country hit hard by the pandemic, saw infections rise by 10 per cent last week compared […]
China’s government has asked Alibaba to dispose of its media assets, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday (Mar 15), citing people familiar with the matter. Discussions over the matter have been held since early this year, the report said, adding that officials were shocked at how expansive Alibaba’s media […]
People from Myanmar living in Taiwan protest against the military coup in their home country at National Taiwan University in Taipei on Feb 28, 2021. TAIPEI: Taiwan’s de facto embassy in Myanmar has advised Taiwanese companies operating in the country to fly the island’s flag and hang signs stating they […]
The Hubble Space Telescope made the find. Scientists think they’ve spied an alien world that lost its atmosphere — then conjured itself a new one. That’s according to a new analysis of Hubble Space Telescope observations gathered in 2017 of a planet dubbed GJ 1132 b. The world tightly orbits […]