Black Hole Image Makes History
First photo of a black hole has been released. The stunning new image shows the shadow of the supermassive black hole in the center of Messier 87 (M87), an elliptical galaxy some 55 million light-years from Earth. This black hole is 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun. Catching its shadow involved eight ground-based…
Engineering Students Scam Apple
Some engineering students scammed Apple out of nearly $1 Million. Yangyang Zhou and Quan Jiang were in the U.S. on student visas, and orchestrated a scam where they shipped counterfeit iPhones from their native China and then returned them to Apple, saying they didn’t work. In accordance with Apple’s warranty program, they were provided with…
Black hole may be coming within days
The darling of science fiction may just around the corner…the first-ever photo of black hole may be coming within days . We’ve seen countless illustrations and simulations of black holes in recent years but never an actual close-up photo of one. That could change Wednesday, when scientists will gather in six simultaneous press briefings around…
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Spacecraft will blast crater into asteroid
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will blast a crater into an asteroid to collect samples.Japan’s space agency said Monday that its Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will follow up last month’s touchdown on a distant asteroid with another risky mission — dropping an explosive on the asteroid to make a crater and then collect underground samples for possible…
VP calls for moon landing in five years
My first thought was why, why do we need to go back? There are so many other space goals we have yet to attain. Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday called for landing astronauts on the moon within five years, an accelerated pace that would aim to put Americans on the lunar south pole. For…
New approach to lithium batteries
There is a new approach that could boost energy capacity of lithium batteries.The team describes their concept as a “hybrid” cathode, because it combines aspects of two different approaches that have been used before, one to increase the energy output per pound (gravimetric energy density), the other for the energy per liter (volumetric energy density)….
New scam targets cell phone accounts
There is a new scam out there that aims to trick you into giving up your cell phone account information.If someone calls you pretending to be from your cell phone carrier and asks for a verification code, don’t give it to them. That was a lesson learned in Florida last month after two different scammers…
SpaceX is readying their ‘Starship Hopper’
SpaceX is readying their ‘Starship Hopper’ spacecraft prototype for its first test.The prototype, a small version of the huge, 100-passenger Starship now in development, could undergo its first test soon, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted on March 17. The uncrewed vehicle, called Starship Hopper, is expected to take brief “hops” during the test, lifting off…
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