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 […]
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 […]
Quantum scale gravity has long been a mystery to physics, but things could be starting to change. Physicists have measured the smallest gravitational field ever recorded, in an experiment that could help in the search for a unified theory of physics. Of the four fundamental forces known to physics — […]
A rare strip of parchment more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and adorned with Christian emblems shows chemical traces of its use by women in medieval England as a magical amulet to protect them during pregnancy and childbirth, according to a new study. On the surface of the strip […]
Accuracy isn’t always better for recalling memories. Like a fisherman talking about the size of the one that got away, the brain exaggerates its memories. This exaggeration is in the service of good, however. New research finds that when people exaggerate the differences between similar memories, they recall them better. […]
Scientists have identified the 19th form of water ice. The exotic, four-sided crystals of this rare ice variety, now dubbed ice XIX, form at ultra-low temperatures and ultra-high pressures. It only exists in laboratory experiments, but researchers say it reveals more about other forms of ice, which can be found […]
SAN FRANCISCO: “Just setting up my twttr” ― the first ever tweet on the platform is up for sale after Twitter boss Jack Dorsey listed his famous post as a unique digital signature on a website for selling tweets as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The post, sent from Dorsey’s account in […]
Only 700 Mediterranean monk seals are left in the wild. The world’s rarest seals have been caught on camera in secret breeding caves in northern Cyprus. The new breeding sites provide hope for a struggling species, but the caves are now in need of protection. Mediterranean monk seals (Monachus monachus) […]
In a study of 789 athletes from major league sports, only five showed signs of damage Most professional athletes who got COVID-19 didn’t suffer heart damage from it, a new study suggests. Researchers screened 789 players who had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infections for signs of myocarditis or pericarditis — […]