Science is a way of thinking
March 26, 2023
The strange behavior of a galaxy billions of light-years away suggests that it may be home to one of the most anticipated events in modern astronomy. Fluctuations in light from the galaxy’s center, SDSS J1430+2303, appear suspiciously like a pair of supermassive black holes with a combined mass of around 200 million Suns on the
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Dinosaur footprints dating back 100 million years have been discovered in southwestern China after a sharp-eyed diner spotted them in a restaurant’s outdoor courtyard. Several stone pits at the restaurant in Leshan, Sichuan province, contained the footprints of two sauropods, a type of dinosaur that lived during the early Cretaceous period, said Lida Xing, a paleontologist and
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An elusive black hole has been discovered in a nearby galaxy for the first time, according to a new study based on observations from the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope. Dormant stellar-mass black holes, which form when massive stars reach the end of their lives, are especially difficult to detect because they have
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Meraxes gigas — a new species of dinosaur has been discovered with disproportionally short arms just like T. rex called the Meraxes gigas. Tyrannosaurs (like the infamous T. rex) is not the only group of gigantic carnivorous dinosaur with tiny arms. In fact, paleontologists have just discovered a new species of dinosaur with disproportionally short arms just like T. rex called the Meraxes
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