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Contrary to a previous report, there’s no evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s most massive and luminous globular star cluster, a new study finds. …
The nearest midsized black hole might instead be a horde of lightweights Read More
One of the farthest known quasars seems to have shut down the creation of new stars in all the galaxies within its vicinity. A quasar is a powerful source of …
A distant quasar may be zapping all galaxies around itself Read More
They say that going to space changes you. Often, what’s being referenced is a shift in mindset, a renewed sense of perspective that comes from seeing our world from above, …
Human spaceflight’s new era is fraught with medical and ethical questions Read More
The time is nigh for nuclear clocks. In a first, scientists have used a tabletop laser to bump an atomic nucleus into a higher energy state. It’s a feat that …
Physicists take a major step toward making a nuclear clock Read More
Lightning and the sun — Science News, June 22, 1974 The latest addition to the growing list of meteorological phenomena which have been linked with solar activity is lightning…. Using …
50 years ago, the sun’s influence on Earth’s lightning was revealed Read More
The orbits of a trio of stars can be so chaotic that it’s impossible to precisely calculate the stars’ future trajectories. That’s the real science behind the name of …
Separating science fact from fiction in Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ Read More
What’s dumped into a landfill is supposed to stay there, but a new study finds that toxic “forever chemicals” are wafting from the waste into the air. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl …
Landfills belch toxic ‘forever chemicals’ into the air Read More
A summer wave of COVID-19 is rising. “There’s clearly a bump,” says William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. The medical center has seen …
How to stay healthy during the COVID-19 summertime surge Read More
Somewhere in the not-too-distant universe, a galaxy named SDSS1335+0728 is waking up. Over the past four years, astronomers have been able to watch the supermassive black hole in SDSS1335+0728’s center …
Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole turn on for the first time Read More
For the first time in nearly a century, physicists have identified a brand new type of magnetic material. Crack open a physics textbook and you may read that scientists classify …
Newfound ‘altermagnets’ shatter the magnetic status quo Read More