ScienceNow: Astronomers have found what may be one of the universe’s oldest supermassive black holes--an object so energetic that even medium-sized ground telescopes can still detect the radiation it emitted 13 billion years ago. The discovery suggests the need to develop “a radical alternative” to current theories of how black holes form, says astronomer Christopher Reynolds of the University of Maryland, College Park
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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