This is the first image of a black hole (Picture: Event Horizon Telescope) The astronomers who captured the first-ever image of a black hole have revealed plans to capture footage of one of the monsters feeding on anything unlucky enough to be nearby. A projected called the Event Horizon Telescope have just won the Breakthrough […]
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An illustration of the ‘starved dragon’ black hole sucking in gas and other material (Image: University of Science And Technology Of China) The awe-inspiring power of black holes is so flabbergasting it’s often hard to put into words. So we’re very glad that Chinese astronomers have issued their own startling description of these cosmic monsters.
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A view of the Hera mission’s spacecraft arriving at Didymos (Image: ESA) As much as we all go on about hating humanity, there’s little doubt we’re the best thing about Planet Earth. So it would be a dreadful shame if a whopping great space rocket smashed into our homeworld and send us into extinction. Luckily,
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Hurricane Dorian is one of the largest storms of its kind in the region for years, and now its power has been captured by cameras in orbit. Hurricane Dorian’s immense power has been laid bare by spectacular moving satellite imagery. Meteorologist Dakota Smith used images taken by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s GOES-16
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Whether it’s propelling prototype Hyperloop pods along a test track, using your noggin to excel in a science contest, or bagging $3 million for winning a video game, students get to do some pretty cool stuff these days. The next big opportunity to land for those just setting out in the world comes in the
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‘We got approved for our final frikken permit!’ organiser of Alienstock festival tells Metro. An event launched in the wake of an abortive bid to ‘storm Area 51’ and ‘see them aliens’ has been given the official go-ahead. Earlier this year more than two million people signed up to a Facebook event and pledged to
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The team behind NASA’s InSight lander named a piece of Martian rubble after one of the most iconic bands in music history: “Rolling Stones Rock.” Slightly larger than a golf ball, the bit of debris appeared to have rolled about three feet, propelled by InSight’s thrusters as the spacecraft touched down on Mars in November.
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Most of the spacecraft in science fiction are ridiculously spacious, but real life is much less luxurious. The International Space Station (ISS) has just 388 cubic meters of habitable space, and future deep-space assignments could have astronauts serving much longer
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Our lovely blue planet might not be quite as hospitable for life as other worlds orbiting distant stars (Image: Getty) Planets orbiting distant stars could have more abundant ecosystems packed with a more varied range of lifeforms than Earth, a new study has claimed. A team from the University of Chicago analysed conditions on various
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Okay, it’s probably disingenuous to pretend that social media is still something nascent and unproven for brands. Even with a tricky attribution problem to solve, most brand marketers and advertisers agree it just makes sense to target these large, active and known audiences. Having said that, some brands ‘got’ social media a lot quicker than
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