Approaching the Photon Sphere
APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss As before, from this orientation, the black hole’s enormous gravity bends light to make two discernible images of the constellation Orion. You now descend to the photon sphere. A photon sphere is a location where gravity is soContinue Reading
Looking Up at the Photon Sphere
APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss The first frame is dark as you peer into the black hole itself. You begin to look up and stars come back into view. Now the stars are more blue than ever before as starlight that has fallenContinue Reading
Mary Peltola Denies Anti-Gay Slur Allegations After Former Staffers’ Claims
Mary Peltola’s campaign is pushing back against allegations that the Alaska Democrat used an anti-gay slur and physically confronted a staffer, saying recent reporting exaggerated her behavior during one of the most difficult periods of her life. The allegations come from a New York Times investigation published Sept. 23 thatContinue Reading
Circling the Black Hole
APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss The first frame shows a background sky highly distorted by the black hole in the center. The gravity of the black hole is so great that it actually deflects the background starlight. Large light bending effects cause theContinue Reading
Predatory Sex and the Single Generation
In our current cultural conversation, especially post-Weinstein, Diddy and Jeffrey Epstein, the image of the pedophile, the groomer or the elderly creep is a universal villain. His is an insatiable appetite; he is a master manipulator, a wolf seeking an endless supply of lambs. In Lance Oppenheim’s “Primetime,” Chris HansenContinue Reading
Supreme Court for the third time rejects Republican redistricting push in Missouri
WASHINGTON — For the third time, the Supreme Court on Friday shut down efforts by Missouri Republicans to use a new congressional map in the midterm elections that are already underway., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Climate Crisis Is No Longer a ‘Distant Warning,’ UN Leader Says
The General Assembly pledged to help countries threatened by sea-level rise, but many challenges remain. By Dan Gearino This week’s United Nations General Assembly in New York featured pleas for urgent action on climate change, with heads of state and Secretary-General António Guterres warning that the window for action isContinue Reading
Nepal Pays for a Climate Crisis It Didn’t Create
Catastrophic flooding in the Himalayan country has left families searching for answers., Read MoreContinue Reading
NHS to suspend staff suspected of snooping on patient records
Other staff have been struck off after looking up the medical records of relations, acquaintances and ex-partners without authorisation. In 2023 an NHS consultant in Cambridgeshire was investigated by the General Medical Council (GMC) after accessing the health history of a woman who had started dating the doctor’s ex-boyfriend. ThereContinue Reading
Trans influencer calls out Nikki Glaser for stand-up joke about what’s ‘in her pants’
Influencer Briel Adams-Wheatley has publicly called out comedian Nikki Glaser over a stand-up joke, via Instagram stories. The exchange began after a fan messaged Adams-Wheatley on Instagram to say they had attended Glaser’s show in Ridgefield, Washington, and felt she should know she was being referenced in the set. TheContinue Reading
Why Does the Positive Grassmannian Show Up Everywhere? | PODCAST: The Joy of Why
Mathematician Lauren Williams tells The Joy of Why how studying a fundamental object in algebraic combinatorics led to a career full of surprises. “The Joy of Why” is a Quanta Magazine podcast about curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge. The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the cosmologist and authorContinue Reading
The Traitor tried to appear strong at the UN. It didn’t work.
This week has told us a lot about how The Traitor sees himself, versus how he’s viewed internationally, says Guardian US political reporter Shrai Popat. Subscribe ► https://www.youtube.com/user/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 From trying to ban news organisations CNN, MS Now and Politico from accessing the White House – a move which all threeContinue Reading