What's Cool in Science This Week?

[Labbug]

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-evocative-farewell-glance-at-ultima-thule

[Labbug]

https://www.foxnews.com/science/more-than-50-polar-bears-invade-russian-village-sparking-government-to-declare-state-of-emergency

[Sir Slash]

Sounds serious. Some people bear-ly made it out alive.  :o   Certainly would've been a 'grizzly' way to go.  :hide:

[Labbug]

https://www.foxnews.com/science/teen-builds-working-nuclear-fusion-reactor-in-memphis-home

[Sir Slash]

I think I saw this movie. After this he builds an iron suit to fly around in.

[Labbug]

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/dramatic-jupiter

[Sir Slash]

Looks like a Picasso painting. 

[Pete Dero]

Gravitational lensing system called SDSS J0928+2031 (NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope)

[Labbug]

https://www.foxnews.com/science/83-gargantuan-black-holes-spotted-guzzling-down-dinner-at-the-edge-of-the-universe

[steve58]

https://www.foxnews.com/science/83-gargantuan-black-holes-spotted-guzzling-down-dinner-at-the-edge-of-the-universe

...speaking of black holes. 

Astronomers are poised Wednesday to unveil the first direct image of a black hole and the surrounding whirlwind of white-hot gas and plasma inexorably drawn by gravity into its ravenous maw, along with the light they generate.

The picture will have been captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of eight radio telescopes scattered across the globe.

...

It won't be a big disk in high resolution like in the Hollywood movie 'Interstellar'. But we might see a black core with a bright ring -- the accretion disk -- around it.

The light from behind the black hole gets bent like a lens. No matter what the orientation of the disc, you will see it as a ring because of the black hole's strong gravity.

Visually, it will look very much like an eclipse, though the mechanism, of course, is completely different."

https://news.yahoo.com/black-holes-picturing-heart-darkness-103735085.html

Looking forward to the pic tomorrow.   :clap: :hug:  :bd:

[Sir Slash]

I'm predicting my lost pairs of socks, the money I spent on Warhammer TW DLC's, along with my mis-spent youth will be clearly visible.

[Pete Dero]

I'm predicting my lost pairs of socks, the money I spent on Warhammer TW DLC's, along with my mis-spent youth will be clearly visible.

The lost singing career of David Hasselhoff  (it is a radio telescope after all ...)

[Sir Slash]

Good One!!!  :bd:   How about Madonna's virginity?  :timeout:

[Pete Dero]

Good One!!!  :bd:   How about Madonna's virginity?  :timeout:

It is a telescope, not a magic mirror !


If you like you can watch the revealing live : https://www.space.com/event-horizon-telescope-black-hole-discovery-webcast.html

The EHT, a global effort to capture the first-ever photo of a black hole's immediate environment, will announce its first results during a press conference Wednesday at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT).
You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of the U.S. National Science Foundation, or directly via the NSF.

[steve58]

Very cool  :clap:  Now if they can just figure out where in the heck the other end comes out at...