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Mar 16, 2022
Astronomers Think They’ve Just Spotted an ‘Invisible’ Black Hole for the First Time
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: cosmology
Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity predicted that massive objects will bend light as it travels past them. That means that any light passing very close to an invisible black hole—but not close enough to end up inside it—will be bent in a similar way to light passing through a lens. This is called gravitational lensing, and can be spotted when a foreground object aligns with a background object, bending its light. The method has already been used to study everything from clusters of galaxies to planets around other stars.
The authors of this new research combined two types of gravitational lensing observations in their search for black holes. It started with them spotting light from a distant star suddenly magnify, briefly making it appear brighter before going back to normal. They could not see any foreground object that was causing the magnification via the process of gravitational lensing, though. That suggested the object might be a lone black hole, something which had never been seen before. The problem was that it could also just have been a faint star.
Figuring out if it was a black hole or a faint star required a lot of work, and that’s where the second type of gravitational lensing observations came in. The authors repeatedly took images with Hubble for six years, measuring how far the star appeared to move as its light was deflected.
Mar 16, 2022
Fastest Artificial Intelligence Ever Made (µ-Parametrization)
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: robotics/AI
Mar 16, 2022
What Einstein got wrong: Five ideas that missed the mark
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: cosmology, quantum physics
For all his genius, he had his tendency to be stuck in his ways — whether black holes, quantum mechanics, or flip-flopping on gravitational waves.
Mar 16, 2022
Ukraine offered tool to search billions of faces
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: robotics/AI
Clearview AI’s face-search tech could be used to uncover infiltrators and to identify the dead.
Mar 16, 2022
Icy Antimatter Experiment Surprises Physicists
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: particle physics
An experiment conducted on hybrid matter-antimatter atoms has defied researchers’ expectations.
Mar 16, 2022
James Webb: ‘Fully focused’ telescope beats expectations
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: space
Engineers align the mirrors of the $10bn observatory to produce a pin-sharp image of a star.
Mar 16, 2022
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei breaks record for longest US spaceflight
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
When NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei launched into space 11 months ago, he did not know how long he would be off the planet, let alone that he would be up there long enough to set any records.
But when the clock strikes 12:24 p.m. EDT (1624 GMT) today (March 15), Vande Hei will claim the title of the U.S. astronaut with the single longest spaceflight in history. At a mission elapsed time of 340 days, 8 hours and 42 minutes, Vande Hei will surpass the duration logged by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly on March 2, 2013.
Mar 16, 2022
Is Elon Musk serious about beating up Putin?
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in categories: Elon Musk, internet, sustainability
Tesla inflates, SpaceX launches, Elon Musk gets mad.
Tesla talks about nationwide inflation, SpaceX launches Starlink and celebrates its 20th birthday, Musk gets mad at Putin on Twitter about Ukraine.
Mar 16, 2022
Russia now faces critical digital crisis with only limited time left
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: business, computing, economics, government
The Russian government is now facing a digital storage crisis as Western cloud services have pulled their services from the country.
Western cloud storage providers have pulled out of Russia following heavy Western sanctions designed to cripple the Russian economy. According to reports, the Russian government is looking at several different ways to solve the problem of finding hosts for Russia’s data, and some of those solutions include leasing all available data storage across Russia or seizing all data storage from Russian businesses that have left the country.