Black Hole

What We’re Following Today It’s Thursday, June 13. (Kevin Lamarque / Reuters / Chip Somodevilla / Getty / The Atlantic ) ‣ President Trump announced in a tweet that Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving her job as White House press secretary to return to her home…

Nestled within this field of bright foreground stars lies ESO 495-21, a tiny galaxy with a big heart. ESO 495-21 may be just 3000 light-years across, but that is not stopping the galaxy from furiously forming huge numbers of stars. It may also host a supermas…

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Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Delicious, as long as it's not made of you. Free for commercial use (via Pixabay) If you've ever wondered what it's like to fall into a black hole, then I don't know what's wrong with you, because as y…

Time flies when you're having fun. Here is an update of some of the highlights of my second month at Quansight Labs. The making of a black hole image & GitHub Sponsors Both Travis and myself were invited by GitHub to attend GitHub Satellite in Berlin.…

We are running out of outrage. Remember the one where Consider reports that Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao reportedly helped smooth the path for transportation funding to Kentucky to help the re-election prospects of her husband, Senate Majority Leade…

When Bethesda took the stage ahead of E3 on Sunday, there was an elephant in the room: Fallout 76. Feedback to the game, which launched in a rough state, has not been pretty. Bethesda knows it. Thats why the publisher kept referring to fan criticism that help…

A groundbreaking image of the swirling maelstrom of gases around the closest supermassive black hole to Earth has been released, with astronomers hoping it could help unlock some of the secrets of how they feast on materials in space. While Sagittarius A*, th…

If you’ve never heard of Patagonia’s Black Hole duffel bags, you’ve likely spotted one in an airport, foreign train station or strapped to the roof of an overlander. Patagonia built the weather-resistant and sturdy bags to last decades with a rugged TPU-lamin…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin This image of ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, was created from images taken from surveys made by both the Sloan Digital Sky S…