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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread How do black holes 'leak' energy? Scientists have a new spin on the answer.An earlier paper said [in 2012]: https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/421/1/L24/989131
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Largest-ever discovery of 'missing link' black holes revealed by dark energy camera (video).The main takeaway IMHO is that they extend observed AGNs downwards in mass and that their data then indicate that Pop III seeds could...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Leaving Pluto in the dust: New Horizons probe gearing up for epic crossing of 'termination shock.Good to see that New Horizons made it this far and may continue to deepen our knowledge of the termination shock. The shoutout for an...
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TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to Unclear Engineer's post in the thread It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch with
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Well, that opinion is completely illogical. Doing it wrong and making things worse isn't justified because others did not do it... -
TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to LemmyCaution's post in the thread It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch with Like.
In view of NASA having sunk 24 billion dollars into the development of the Space Launch System and has effectively nothing to show for...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread What was the mysterious space signal scientists discovered in 2024? Here are some possibilities.Nice to see the new telescope and one of its new type of events. Hopefully we will learn more on the latter soon!
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread It was a miracle.' Amazing tales of dead spacecraft that came back to life.It isn't only we that produce good engineering, sometimes it's nature. The comeback stories reminds me how victims of fateful mutations...
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TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to COLGeek's post in the thread It was a miracle.' Amazing tales of dead spacecraft that came back to life with Like.
Miracle? No. Good engineering? Yes.
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Meet 'Tansuo' and 'Wangyu,' China's next moon rover and astronaut spacesuit (video).Wangyu has been shown in videos and seems like a great, flexible, suit. Meanwhile, I'm disappointed in Space editorial decision to lock...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Temperamental stars could be ruining our view of thousands of exoplanets, Hubble Telescope finds.Those can be strong effects too:
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Putin axes Yuri Borisov, head of Russia's space agency.Gonets sounds like a mildly successful low tech space program for a nation with the financial muscles of Italy: Waiting times for...
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TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to Meteoric Marmot's post in the thread Putin axes Yuri Borisov, head of Russia's space agency with Like.
Maybe at 39 he hasn't built up an extensive enough "old crony network" to be as totally corrupt as his predecessor. Or not. Advancement...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Mars was hot then cold then hot again. Could life have really survived there?.The most interesting find is that they can explain the absence of carbonates under a CO2 atmosphere, because the climate that would...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Volcanic cones on Mars tell a tale of ice and fire.As context, Curiosity has found the first evidence that open water existed on Mars (roughly 3.7 billion years ago)...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread The 1st monster black hole ever imaged has messy eating habits.Interesting. New cosmological surveys prefer early universe black holes that are spun up to high rates by accretion. While late universe...
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