When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something. In a new paper in Nature, scientists have chronicled a “black hole star” that’s the size of our solar system and glows bright red in the depth of space. The findings are based on observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, which
Observations and data reduction MoM-BH*-1 has been observed with JWST by three programmes. It was imaged in cycle 1 by the PRIMER survey14 (JWST-GO-1837; principal investigator: J. Dunlop) using the MIRI (5 January 2023 and 16 January 2023) and NIRCam (7 August 2023 and 9 August 2023) instruments. In cycle 2 (19 December 2023), the
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A “massive” Ukrainian drone and missile strike on Russia’s port city of Novorossiysk has damaged grain export terminals and hit the last major Russian naval base on the Black Sea. Three people, including an eight-year-old child, were killed and 24 people were injured in the Wednesday nighttime attack. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Ukraine had launched
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A midwife crisscrosses Alabama to care for pregnant women and deliver babies. It’s an important profession as maternity deserts expand across the U.S., according to the latest March of Dimes report. Maria Fabrizio/NPR hide caption toggle caption Maria Fabrizio/NPR Nadia Gramby cherishes quiet moments with her baby girl River Emmanuel, who’s starting to talk. They
