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Most Powerful Black-Hole Flare Ever Recorded Shone Like 10 Trillion Suns

Most Powerful Black-Hole Flare Ever Recorded Shone Like 10 Trillion Suns Space 1 hour ago

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How to See Tonight's Beaver Supermoon – The Biggest And Brightest Since 2019 Space 8 hours ago

The image features a dark background with a thin, bright horizontal line running across the centre. This is our galaxy’s disc. Above and below this line, numerous white arrows point upward and downward. These arrows vary in length and are spread evenly along the line. Scattered among the arrows are small red and blue dots. The visual resembles an astronomical data visualisation, illustrating positions and motions of stars in our galaxy.

A Colossal Wave Is Rippling Through The Milky Way, Gaia Data Reveals Space 9 hours ago

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Memory Problems Are Surging in Adults Under 40, Large US Study Finds Health 9 hours ago

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A Rare Genetic Condition Can Turn Healthy Foods Dangerous Health11 hours ago

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Should Bacon Come With a Cancer Warning? Health11 hours ago

An artist's concept of a supermassive black hole, a surrounding disk of material falling towards the black hole and a jet containing particles moving away at close to the speed of light. This black hole represents a recently-discovered quasar powered by a black hole. New Chandra observations indicate that the black hole is growing at a rate that exceeds the usual limit for black holes, called the Eddington Limit.

The Early Universe Let Black Holes Break The Rules, Briefly Space12 hours ago

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Eerie 'Skull' Appears in a Giant Volcanic Pit in The Sahara Nature18 hours ago

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There's a Surprisingly Simple Way to Stop Crying Over Your Onions Physics22 hours ago

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Scientists Finally Solve 70-Year Mystery of Sun's 'Impossible Heat' Space1 day ago

Fasting Doesn't Impact Mental Function How We Thought, Massive Review Finds

We Were Wrong About Fasting, Massive Review Finds Health1 day ago

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Zoning Out May Be Your Brain's Rinse Cycle, Study Finds Health1 day ago

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One Simple Japanese Eating Habit Is Linked to Lower Weight Gain Health1 day ago

Strange Glass in Australia Reveals a Massive Impact We Never Knew About

Strange Glass in Australia Reveals a Massive Impact We Never Knew About Nature1 day ago

Comet 3IATLAS streaks across a dense star field, in an image composed of exposures taken through three filters, shown here as red, green, and blue.

Why Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Looks So Weird – And Why It's Not Aliens Space1 day ago

Illustration of amyloid plaques (orange) and microglia cells (red) among neurons

'Young' Immune Cells Partly Reverse Alzheimer's Symptoms in Mice Health1 day ago

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