An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth on the eastern coast of modern Mexico, resulting in up to three quarters of plant and animal species living on the planet going extinct — including the dinosaurs. Now, a team of researchers equipped with a supercomputer have managed to simulate the entire…
Tag: Tsunamis
Quasar tsunamis rip across galaxies
Astronomers using the Hubble Telescope found that the region around a quasar’s black hole pushes out material at a few percent the speed of light. These quasar tsunamis wreak havoc on the galaxies in which the quasars live. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/quasar-tsunamis-rip-across-galaxies…
Distant ‘quasar tsunamis’ are ripping their own galaxies apart
The winds and radiation blowing out of quasars — the most energetic objects in the universe — can kill star formation galaxy-wide, new research shows. Source: https://www.livescience.com/quasar-tsunamis-kill-star-formation.html
Team discovers quasar tsunamis capable of preventing stars from forming
Using the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Virginia Tech’s Nahum Arav has discovered the most energetic outflows ever witnessed in the universe. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-03-team-quasar-tsunamis-capable-stars.html…
10 Times Nature Was Totally Metal in 2019
From cannibal ants to reindeer ‘cyclones’ to solar tsunamis, 2019 was a metal year for nature. Here are our 10 favorite moments. Source: https://www.livescience.com/nature-metal-2019.html
Tsunamis, wildfires followed dinosaur-killing impact
A new study that analyzed rock from deep within the Chicxulub impact crater helps reveal what happened within the first 24 hours after the asteroid impact that doomed the dinosaurs. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/tsunamis-wildfires-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-impact…