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NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on the outskirts of a distant galaxy. For starters, these phenomena are rare and none have ever been seen so far outside the core of a galaxy before. “We were looking for these star destruction events as a
A 25-foot fiberglass model of a shark (or at least its back half) adorning the roof of a townhouse in suburban Oxford, England, the Headington Shark is the kind of local curiosity that makes any casual passerby think, “There must be a story there.” And there is: it’s a protest artwork conceived in 1986 by
The Ukrainian Air Force says a shortage of interceptor missiles meant that none of the 23 ballistic missiles fired by Russia at kyiv on Sunday night were shot down. At the site of an explosion in Ukraine’s capital, which left a large hole in a residential building, a survivor told BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford she
