A quasar is an extremely bright and distant point-like source visible to radio telescopes. The source is a so-called Active Galactic Nucleus, fueled by a supermassive black hole. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/definition-what-is-a-quasar…
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The World Is Watching More Anime — and Streaming Services Are Buying
An anonymous reader shares a report: The pandemic is helping Japan’s demon slayers, monsters and robots make the leap to the global market. Animated video in the Japanese style — aka anime — has long been a niche taste for fans in the U.S. and elsewhere, and some anime films such as those by Hayao Miyazaki have become mainstream hits. Now,…
Black hole caught turning a poor star into spaghetti
This supermassive black hole gobbled up a star in full view of Earth’s telescopes, and could unlock secrets of how these monsters feed. Source: https://www.livescience.com/supermassive-black-hole-spaghettify-star.html
Blizzard Co-Founder Mike Morhaime Launches New Gaming Endeavor Dreamhaven
Mike Morhaime, the cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment, has launched a new game company called Dreamhaven, and it has established two new game studios: Moonshot and Secret Door. VentureBeat reports: The Irvine, California-based company is a pretty good clue that Morhaime and his wife Amy Morhaime weren’t quite done with games when they left Activision Blizzard in 2018. Mike will be the…
Black hole ‘hair’ could be detected using ripples in spacetime
Hair may record the information swallowed by the gravitational monsters. Source: https://www.livescience.com/black-hole-hair-gravitational-waves.html
AI Can Make Music, Screenplays, and Poetry. What About a Movie?
Want a movie where a protagonist your age, race, sexuality, gender, and religion becomes an Olympic swimmer? You got it. Want a movie where someone demographically identical to your boss gets squeezed to death and devoured by a Burmese python? Your wish is its command. From a report: Want to leave out the specifics and let fate decide what never-before-imagined movie…
Birds nest inside the Loch Ness Monster’s head
The lack of visitors to the iconic Scottish loch during lockdown has made it possible for nature to take over. At this time of the year, Loch Ness is … Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337941/birds-nest-inside-the-loch-ness-monsters-head…
Triassic sea monster was about to birth three little monsters before she died
The ichthyosaur and her unborn babies lived about 246 million years ago. Source: https://www.livescience.com/pregnant-sea-monster-triassic.html
Supermassive black holes shortly after the Big Bang: How to seed them
They are billions of times larger than our Sun: how is it possible that, as recently observed, supermassive black holes were already present when the Universe, now 14 billion years old, was “just” 800 million years old? For astrophysicists, the formation of these cosmic monsters in such a short time is a real scientific headache, which raises important questions on the…
This 500 million-year-old ‘social network’ may have helped sea monsters clone themselves
Rangeomorph fossils from 38 dig sites showed a mysterious ‘social network’ of interconnected strings, new research shows. Source: https://www.livescience.com/rangeomorph-fossils-social-network-filaments.html