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Florida Pedestrian Crisis: Cohen and Cohen Law Fights for Victims
Personal injury attorney Adam Mann at Hollywood, Florida law firm Cohen and Cohen Law explains pedestrian accident victims’ legal rights after an accident.
Are we living in a black hole?
Inside the Very Expensive, Extremely Overwhelming, Engineered Fun of Theme Parks Roller coasters are bumping against the limits of physics and the human body to keep their riders entertained. On a recent Friday morning, I found myself in a sea of bodies waiting to be admitted to Universal’s new $7 billion Orlando theme park, Epic Universe. Speakers hidden in the foliage blared a …
Are we living in a black hole? Original
Gazing up at the stars at night, it’s easy to imagine that space goes on forever. But cosmologists know that the universe actually has limits. First, their best models indicate that space and time had a beginning, a subatomic point called a singularity. This point of intense heat and density rapidly ballooned outward during the big bang.
Alien life might be able to eat cosmic shrapnel from dying stars Original
High-energy radiation is generally bad for life. It causes harmful mutations, cellular damage, and, in large doses, death. Yet a few special microbes on Earth can not only tolerate radiation but harness it as a food source—and life on other planets could survive on a similar diet. A particularly dangerous type of radiation known as galactic cosmic rays can be found throughout space, and some faraway worlds are under constant barrage from these particles.
Scientists record a black hole collision they weren’t sure was possible
A pair of newly-discovered record-breaking black holes has scientists simultaneously popping the champagne and scratching their heads. The massive duo are the largest ever recorded at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which was built to detect ripples in the fabric of spacetime caused by the collisions of massive objects. These enormous outliers are challenging theorists to figure out just how they grew to such titanic sizes.
Facts about our planet's lunar companion
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Analyze This: A recently spotted space object is puzzling scientists
A mystery object has just been spotted in our galaxy. The puzzling entity could be a very heavy neutron star — the left-behind corpse of a giant star. Or maybe it’s one of the lightest black holes ever observed. The MeerKAT Radio Telescope in South Africa spotted the unidentified object circling a pulsar. The observatory was monitoring pulsars in a star cluster 40,000 light years from Earth. As these pulsars spin, they shoot out powerful beams of light, like cosmic lighthouses.
Check out the magnetic fields around our galaxy’s central black hole
astronomer: A scientist who works in the field of research that deals with celestial objects, space and the physical universe. astrophysics: An area of astronomy that deals with understanding the physical nature of stars and other objects in space. People who work in this field are known as astrophysicists. black hole: A region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation (including light) can escape.
Did James Webb telescope images ‘break’ the universe?
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is raising big questions about the early universe. In its first images, JWST captured what appeared to be huge galaxies in the ancient universe. In fact, those galaxies looked much too big to fit scientists’ current theory of how the universe grew up. This has raised some concerns that the history of the early universe needs to be rewritten. But a new look at old data from the Hubble Space Telescope tells another story.
Explainer: What is the solar cycle?
astronaut: Someone trained to travel into space for research and exploration. astronomer: A scientist who works in the field of research that deals with celestial objects, space and the physical universe. atmosphere: The envelope of gases surrounding Earth, another planet or a moon. atom: The basic unit of a chemical element. Atoms are made up of a dense nucleus that contains positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons. The nucleus is orbited by a cloud of negatively charged electrons.
Can the U.S. Develop A Nuclear Bomb Without Ever Testing It?
Can the U.S. Develop A Nuclear Bomb Without Ever Testing It? The new weapon should work just fine—in theory. But without live testing, scientists won’t know for sure.
Did the James Webb telescope ‘break the universe’? Maybe not
Reports that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope broke the universe may have been exaggerated. In its first images, JWST captured what appeared to be gargantuan galaxies in the early universe — ones much too big to be explained by current cosmological theories (SN: 2/22/23).
JWST spies hints of a neutron star left behind by supernova 1987A
Within the dusty cloud left behind by supernova 1987A, the most famous stellar explosion in modern history, astronomers have found compelling evidence for a long-sought neutron star. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has spied indirect hints of a powerful source of X-rays — likely some type of neutron star — coming from the core of the supernova remnant, researchers report February 22 in Science.
Bacteria that can make humans sick could survive on Mars
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The strongest known fast radio burst has been traced to a 7-galaxy pileup
NEW ORLEANS — A mind-bogglingly strong spurt of electromagnetic energy has for the first time been traced back to a cluster of seven merging galaxies. The finding could bolster the hypothesis that such mysterious flareups, known as fast radio bursts, originate from bizarre, highly magnetized dead stars called magnetars. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are fleeting explosive events: They last fractions of a second but release as much energy as the sun does in a month.
地球外生命体は存在するか？ 人類の先入観を超えた探索
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10 incredible findings about aliens
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Famous 'alien' Wow! signal may have come from distant, sunlike star - Livescience.com
Ads Live Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. By published 19 May 22 The Wow! alien signal may have come from the constellation Sagittarius. Researchers may have pinpointed the source of a famous supposed alien broadcast discovered nearly a half century ago. The prominent and still-mysterious Wow! Signal, which briefly blared in a radio telescope the night of Aug.
9 Equations That Changed the World
Adam Mann Live Science December 27, 2021 (Nikki Brickett/RR Auction via AP) Mathematical equations offer unique windows into the world. They make sense of reality and help us see things that haven't been previously noticed. So it’s no surprise that new developments in math have often gone hand in hand with advancements in our understanding of the universe. Read Full Article » Show comments Hide Comments Related Articles
Milky Way gallery: See awe-inspiring images of our galaxy
Adam Mann 4 hrs ago Milky Way gallery: See awe-inspiring images of our galaxy Throughout the ages, the Milky Way has hung above humanity in the sky, a beautiful marvel shining steadily each night. Nowadays, most city-bound folks rarely see the full splendor of our home galaxy stretching across the heavens. Luckily, there are photographers all over the world with the skills to show off what many skywatchers are missing.
Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Are Finally Coming into Focus
Nobody noticed when an Australian radio telescope captured a fleeting explosion coming from far beyond the Milky Way in 2001. Records of the powerful flare sat unseen for more than half a decade until a group of scientists sifting through archival data spotted the eruption—a so-called fast radio burst (FRB). According to one of those scientists, astrophysicist Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University, the burst produced as much energy in a few thousandths of a second as the sun does in a month.
‘Distant cosmic explosion’ was actually Russian space junk, new studies argue
Last year, a team of astronomers made a blockbuster claim, saying they had captured the most distant cosmic explosion ever—a gamma ray burst in a galaxy called GN-z11. But that flash of light—supposedly from the most distant galaxy known—has a far more prosaic explanation: It was a glinting reflection from a tumbling, spent Russian rocket that happened to photobomb observers at just the right moment, two new studies claim. “In the end, I’m of the opinion that this was a fluke,” says D.
A Possible Signal From the Beginning of Time
Adam Mann Space.com September 21, 2021 Two intriguing signals spotted in a small gravitational-wave detector could represent all kinds of exotic phenomena — from new physics to dark matter interacting with black holes to vibrations from near the beginning of the universe. But, because of the experiment's novelty, researchers are being cautious about claiming a discovery of any kind. Read Full Article »
Astronomers may have seen a star gulp down a black hole and explode
For the first time, astronomers have captured solid evidence of a rare double cosmic cannibalism — a star swallowing a compact object such as a black hole or neutron star. In turn, that object gobbled the star’s core, causing it to explode and leave behind only a black hole. The first hints of the gruesome event, described in the Sept. 3 Science, came from the Very Large Array (VLA), a radio telescope consisting of 27 enormous dishes in the New Mexican desert near Socorro.
Quantum Crystal Could Reveal Identity of Dark Matter
Adam Mann Live Science August 31, 2021 AP Photo/Illustris Collaboration Using a quirk of quantum mechanics, researchers have created a beryllium crystal capable of detecting incredibly weak electromagnetic fields. The work could one day be used to detect hypothetical dark matter particles called axions. Read Full Article » Show comments Hide Comments Related Articles
One-third of Sun-like stars may have eaten their planets
An artist’s concept of a planet being eaten by its parent star. NASA/ESA/G. Bacon By Adam MannAug. 30, 2021 , 1:15 PM Like the Greek god Chronos, a good number of stars devour their children. As many as one-third of them have swallowed one or more of their own planets, a new study suggests. The findings could help astronomers rule out stellar systems unlikely to contain Earth-like worlds.
One-third of Sun-like stars may have eaten their planets
Like the Greek god Chronos, a good number of stars devour their children. As many as one-third of them have swallowed one or more of their own planets, a new study suggests. The findings could help astronomers rule out stellar systems unlikely to contain Earth-like worlds. “This will probably end up being one of the classic papers on this subject,” says Eric Mamajek, an astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who was not involved in the work.
Lakes of liquid water at Mars’ southern ice cap may just be mirages
Maybe hold off on that Martian ice fishing trip. Two new studies splash cold water on the idea that potentially habitable lakes of liquid water exist deep under the Red Planet’s southern polar ice cap. The possibility of a lake roughly 20 kilometers across was first raised in 2018, when the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft probed the planet’s southern polar cap with its Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding, or MARSIS, instrument.
米国防総省が公表した「UFO報告書」が明らかにしたこと
米国防総省と国家情報長官室が、長く待ち望まれていた未確認飛行物体（UFO）の調査報告書を発表した。多くの憶測が飛び交ったあとに公開された「予備評価：未確認の空中現象」と題されたこの非機密文書は、2004年11月から21年3月の間に米軍パイロットが「説明できない物体」に遭遇した144件の事例を調査したものである。UFOが別世界からの訪問者の存在を示すものだと考える人々は、何カ月も前からこの報告書の発表を大げさに騒ぎ立ててきた。 この報告書において、パイロットが目撃した物体が正確に何であったのかを高い信頼度で推論できた事例は1件だけだった。それは空気の抜けていく大きな風船だったとされている。 その他の事例については調査を進めれば、空中に浮遊する破片や氷の結晶などの自然大気現象、米国や他国の飛行体など、何らかの地球上の原因にまでさかのぼることができる可能性が高いと結論づけている。しかし、報告されている事例のほとんどは、その性質から考えると確認が困難だ。...
Best Dehumidifiers for Garage Workshops
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The Hills Are Alive With the Flows of Physics
Trilobites Landscapes around you may appear static, but research using lasers suggests even the most steady terrain is creeping along. A grassy hillside showing signs of soil creep in England. Credit...Nick Hawkes/Alamy Stock Photo June 24, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Mountains look solid. But that just might be a mirage. On extremely long time scales, natural landscapes are creeping and flowing like viscous streams.
Can We Stop Time?
AP Photo/Petr David Josek The relentless march of time can be a source of anxiety. Who hasn't sometimes wished for the ability to freeze themselves in a happy moment or even prevent a loved one from slipping away. Read Full Article » Show comments Hide Comments Related Articles
The Milky Way Is Mysteriously Warped
There's trouble brewing at the edge of the Milky Way: New measurements suggest that a peculiar distortion of the galactic disk is hardly moving, contradicting earlier reports. As yet, nobody knows which finding will end up being correct. At stake are some key details in the structure and formation of spiral galaxies throughout the universe. Read Full Article »
Milky Way's comets baffle scientists with a "so unlikely" discovery
Cue the Slayer: It turns out that comets are low-key metal. For the first time ever, astronomers have identified iron and nickel vapor in the atmospheres of comets from our Solar System and beyond, a result that is baffling researchers. “Everybody likes a good mystery,” Auburn University physics professor Dennis Bodewits tells Inverse. “Once you know they’re there, you can’t miss them.
The most mysterious kind of black hole may solve a cosmic mystery
One day a little more than five years ago, Ely Kovetz was having lunch with his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, discussing a tantalizing rumor. Like many in the physics community, Kovetz had heard the buzz about a possible signal from a newly operational US physics observatory. The observatory was designed to pick up disturbances in the fabric of spacetime, ripples created by, among other things, black holes crashing into each other.
Dark Matter Could Be Destroying Itself Inside Exoplanets
M. Kornmesser/ESA/Hubble via AP Large gaseous exoplanets could be filled with self-destructing dark matter. And now, a team of researchers has proposed using the soon-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope to scan distant behemoths in the galaxy for potential heating effects that could arise from the mysterious substance, which outweighs regular matter by almost 6 to 1 in the universe. Read Full Article » Show comments Hide Comments Related Articles
So Much Hinges on the Existence of Ancient Black Holes
For 50 years, physicists have searched for signs of black holes that formed just after the Big Bang. If real, these massive, invisible objects could help unravel the mystery of dark matter. Adam Mann and Knowable Magazine 2:23 PM ET One day a little more than five years ago, Ely Kovetz was having lunch with his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, discussing a tantalizing rumor.
Primordial black holes could explain dark matter, galaxy growth, and
A half-century-old, still-disputed idea about dense cosmic objects from the dawn of time could solve longstanding mysteries about the universe. One day a little more than five years ago, Ely Kovetz was having lunch with his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, discussing a tantalizing rumor. Like many in the physics community, Kovetz had heard the buzz about a possible signal from a newly operational US physics observatory.
Primordial black holes could explain dark matter, galaxy growth and more
Apr 19, 2021 3:28 PM EDT One day a little more than five years ago, Ely Kovetz was having lunch with his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, discussing a tantalizing rumor. Like many in the physics community, Kovetz had heard the buzz about a possible signal from a newly operational US physics observatory. The observatory was designed to pick up disturbances in the fabric of spacetime, ripples created by, among other things, black holes crashing into each other.
Primordial black holes could explain dark matter, galaxy growth and more
A half-century-old, still-disputed idea about dense cosmic objects from the dawn of time could solve longstanding mysteries about the universe One day a little more than five years ago, Ely Kovetz was having lunch with his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, discussing a tantalizing rumor. Like many in the physics community, Kovetz had heard the buzz about a possible signal from a newly operational US physics observatory.
Primordial black holes could explain dark matter, galaxy growth and more
One day a little more than five years ago, Ely Kovetz was having lunch with his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, discussing a tantalizing rumor. Like many in the physics community, Kovetz had heard the buzz about a possible signal from a newly operational US physics observatory. The observatory was designed to pick up disturbances in the fabric of spacetime, ripples created by, among other things, black holes crashing into each other.
Inner Workings: Making headway with the mysteries of life’s origins
In 1863, Charles Darwin opined in a letter to a friend that contemplating the origin of life was “mere rubbish thinking” and that “one might as well think of [the] origin of matter.” Many researchers today would agree with Darwin. And yet, whereas cosmologists know how particles, elements, and many molecules formed after the big bang, biologists still struggle to explain how inorganic molecules turned into the stuff of life.
'Dark Sirens' Could Resolve Tension Over Hubble Constant
Adam Mann Live Science April 10, 2021 In recent years, cosmologists have been faced with a crisis: The universe is expanding, but no one can agree on how fast it's moving away from us. That's because different ways of measuring the Hubble constant, a fundamental parameter that describes this expansion, have produced conflicting results. Read Full Article »
Some dead stars may harbor enough uranium to set off a thermonuclear bomb
A planetary nebula results from a Sun-like star shedding its outer layers at the end of its life. In the center is the compact stellar remnant, known as a white dwarf. NASA; ESA; K. Noll/STScI By Adam MannMar. 18, 2021 , 3:35 PM A thermonuclear bomb might be ticking deep in the cores of some dead stars. A new theoretical study traces out how certain stellar corpses known as white dwarfs could accumulate a critical mass of uranium that would trigger a massive supernova explosion.
Some dead stars may harbor enough uranium to set off a thermonuclear bomb
A thermonuclear bomb might be ticking deep in the cores of some dead stars. A new theoretical study traces out how certain stellar corpses known as white dwarfs could accumulate a critical mass of uranium that would trigger a massive supernova explosion. The findings could yield insights into the destruction habits of white dwarfs, which are responsible for creating heavy elements like iron and nickel.
Extraterrestrial evidence: 10 incredible findings about aliens from 2020
© Provided by Live Science CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope, also called The Dish, located in Australia. Here on the little space rock we call Earth, humans often wonder whether or not we are alone in this universe. Though that question was not answered in 2020, many discoveries seemed to increase the prospect of extraterrestrial entities existing.
Physicists Just Discovered The Ultimate 'Kings And Queens' of Quantumness
(Sakkmesterke/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) ADAM MANN, LIVE SCIENCE 20 NOVEMBER 2020 Is that light particle more like a ball careening through space, or more of a smeary mess that is everywhere at once? The answer depends on whether the absurd laws of subatomic particles or the deterministic equations that govern larger objects hold more sway.
Physicists Discover the 'Kings and Queens of Quantumness'
Adam Mann Live Science November 18, 2020 Is that light particle more like a ball careening through space, or more of a smeary mess that is everywhere at once? The answer depends on whether the absurd laws of subatomic particles or the deterministic equations that govern larger objects hold more sway. Now, for the first time, physicists have found a way to mathematically define the degree of quantumness that anything — be it particle, atom, molecule or even a planet — exhibits. Read Full Article »
Physicists Discover the 'Kings and Queens of Quantumness'
Is that light particle more like a ball careening through space, or more of a smeary mess that is everywhere at once? The answer depends on whether the absurd laws of subatomic particles or the deterministic equations that govern larger objects hold more sway. Now, for the first time, physicists have found a way to mathematically define the degree of quantumness that anything — be it particle, atom, molecule or even a planet — exhibits.
The Very Large Array: 40 years of groundbreaking radio astronomy
© Provided by Space Radio telescopes at the Very Large Array. The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is a radio astronomy telescope facility located near Socorro, New Mexico.
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