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Astronomers have identified the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This immense collection of water, equivalent to 140 trillion times the water in Earth’s oceans, surrounds a quasar over 12 billion light-years away.

“The environment around this quasar is very unique in that it’s producing this huge mass of water,” stated Matt Bradford from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laborator y. “It’s another demonstration that water is pervasive throughout the universe, even at the very earliest times.” Bradford leads one of the teams behind this groundbreaking discovery. Their research, partially funded by NASA, appears in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Quasars are powered by enormous black holes that consume surrounding gas and dust, emitting vast amounts of energy. The quasar in question, APM 08279+5255, harbors a black hole 20 billion times more massive than the sun and produces energy equivalent to a thousand trillion suns.

Samsung Foundry has reportedly secured a major 2nm customer, the US AI chip firm Ambarella, as the Korean giant seeks to gain market dominance.

Samsung’s 2nm GAA Process Faces Yield Issues, Yet The Firm Still Has Massive Attention From The Markets

Samsung is currently navigating its way through the semiconductor industry since the firm’s foundry division hasn’t witnessed a “conclusive” breakthrough yet, especially for its higher-end processes. To add further confusion to the matter, reports state the Samsung hasn’t managed to achieve “industry-standard” yield rates with its processes, notably the 3nm GAA, which goes to show that the Korean giant is experiencing a hard time in the markets. However, The Elec now reports that Samsung Foundry has secured a 2nm client, the renowned US semiconductor design company Ambarella.

The US has some impressive flywheel energy storage plants. The largest of these is the 20 MW Beacon Power flywheel station located in Stephentown, New York. Until recently, it was the world’s largest flywheel energy storage system (FESS), but not anymore.

China has developed a massive 30-megawatt (MW) FESS in Shanxi province called the Dinglun flywheel energy storage power station.

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Microsoft and Atom Computing aim to capitalize on a qubit-virtualization system that Microsoft and Quantinuum say has broken a logical-qubit creation record.

Ispace’s Mission 2 will launch no earlier than December on a Falcon 9 rocket.

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