Science
In a first, astronomers watch a black hole’s corona disappear, then reappear – Big Think
While a crown-encrusted virus has run roughshod over the world, another entirely different corona about 100 million light years from Earth has mysteriously disappeared.
It seems the universe has an odd sense of humor. While a crown-encrusted virus has run roughshod over the world, another entirely different corona about 100 million light years from Earth has mysteriously disappeared.
For the first time, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have watched as a supermassive black hole’s own corona, the ultrabright, billion-degree ring of high-energy particles that encircles a black hole’s event horizon, was abruptly destroyed.
The cause of this dramatic transformatio…
-
General21 hours agoLanlan Yang pleads not guilty over Rolls-Royce crash in Sydney
-
Business20 hours agoBuying Coles shares? Here’s the dividend yield after the 8% price drop
-
Noosa News21 hours agoBrett Andrew Button appeal: Hunter Valley wedding bus crash driver loses fight to reduce sentence
-
Noosa News21 hours agoBrisbane school shuts after finding ‘traces’ of asbestos-laced play sand