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☆ My final, unexpected conversation with Cormac McCarthy
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

My last conversation with Cormac McCarthy, the acclaimed and elusive novelist who died last week at 89, came as unexpectedly as the first. "I thought you said Cormac McCarthy edited your book on theoretical physics?" "I got the manuscript back in the mail, and it was marked up on every page," Randall told me. By the time I interviewed Randall, Cormac was spending his days at the Santa Fe Institute, a theoretical-research institute in the piñon foothills of New Mexico. "Don't do this to yourself," McCarthy told the guy, before shutting the door in his face.

Persons: Cormac McCarthy, McCarthy, —, Belying, Cormac, Lisa Randall, Randall, Gil, Jon, MacArthur, Murray Gell, Mann, it's, Einstein, they're, Doug Erwin, David Krakauer, David, Stella Maris, I'd, He'd, David Kushner Organizations: Wired, Stone, Harvard, drifters, Santa Fe Institute, Atari Locations: backwoods Florida, piñon, New Mexico, Texas, Tennessee, El Paso, Rolling Stone, SFI

☆ An 'ultramassive' black hole has been discovered that's 33 billion times the mass of the sun
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

They estimate this black hole is 30 billion times bigger than our sun. That would make it one of the biggest black holes ever discovered. This black hole may remain one of the biggest holes ever discovered because physicists think black holes can't grow much bigger than that, Nightingale said. The technique could unveil 'inactive' black holesThe discovery of this black hole pushes back the limits of cosmology, Nightingale told the BBC. "How do you form a black hole this big in just 13 billion years of the universe's existence?"

☆ Fact Check-The Earth is not covered by a dome or ‘firmament’
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Users on social media are saying people on Earth are living under a dome, also called a “firmament,” without providing evidence to support the claim. But the video’s examples offer no proof of humans living under a dome or firmament, while there is ample evidence that no dome exists. “Rocket hitting the flat earth dome”, reads the title of one of the YouTube clips. SIXTY YEARS OF SPACEFLIGHTExperts pointed out that if there were a dome that covered the Earth, astronauts would have encountered it by now. A video provides no evidence that the Earth is under a dome or “firmament”.

☆ NASA awards SpaceX a $255 million contract to launch the next space telescope, which will study dark energy and exoplanets
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-20 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk's SpaceX will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in 2026 under a new NASA contract. The telescope will study dark energy, dark matter, galaxies, and exoplanets, NASA said. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is 2.4 meters in diameter, is slated to launch in October 2026, the space agency said in a press release. Under the contract, SpaceX will launch the telescope on a Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. According to NASA, the Roman telescope will launch on a Falcon Heavy rocket, which SpaceX bills as "the world's most powerful rocket."

☆ Астрономы уточнили настоящий возраст Вселенной от большого взрыва
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-11 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +2 min

Команда ученых провела уточняющие исследования относительно реального возраста нашей Вселенной. Такие выводы схожи с предыдущим исследованием, которое провела команда телескопа Planck, передает news.online.ua. Ранее третий научный коллектив провел собственное исследование относительно возраста Вселенной и пришел к выводу, что тот моложе, чем определил Planck. Напомним, наиболее распространенными теориями возникновения и развития нашей Вселенной стали теория Большого взрыва вместе с теорией инфляции. Первая предполагает непрерывное расширение с момента "взрыва", а вторая говорит, что расширение началось, но через некоторое время после образования.

Persons: Planck, Атакамский, Мультивселенная Organizations: Flatiron, Центр вычислительной физики, Институт получившие, Даремский университет Locations: ONLINE.UA, Чили, Луна, Земля, Марс

☆ Astronomii au căzut de acord asupra vârstei Universului; Cât de bătrân este
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-11 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Astronomii au efectuat noi cercetări asupra celei mai vechi lumini din Univers cu ajutorul observatorului aflat deasupra deșertului Atacama, din Chile, pe care le-au coroborat cu noțiuni de geometrie cosmică. Punând cap la cap toate datele au stabilit că Universul are o vechime de 13,77 miliarde de ani, plus – minus 40 de milioane de ani. Această discrepanță a sugerat că ar putea fi necesar un nou model al Universului și a stârnit îngrijorarea că unul dintre seturile de măsurători ar putea fi incorect. Noile cercetări, detaliate în două lucrări, au stabilit care este vârsta Universului, inclusiv cu marjă de eroare. „Acum am venit cu un răspuns cu care Planck și ACT sunt de acord.

Persons: Astronomii, Planck, Simone Aiola Organizations: Science Foundation, Agenției Spațiale Europene Locations: Chile

“It is pure visual silence,” said photographer Andres Figueroa. Taking along his mobile lighting studio, Figueroa photographed a series of religious festivals that take place every July in the Atacama. Photographer Andres Figueroa Miguel Hidalgo“I have always wanted to see the desert. These photos highlight the uniqueness of Andean culture, which draws influences from Europe, the Inca and more recently, Chinese traditions. “I felt the presence of love … their love and effort in communicating with their divinity and holding together as communities.”

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