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Image via Sony / Marvel Studios In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker had an extremely difficult decision to make, one that left most of us in tears as he said goodbye to everyone he loved. In order to fix the botched-up spell that had caused the multiverse to collide, Spider-Man and Doctor Strange cast another spell, one which resulted in everyone forgetting all about Peter Parker. Now some fans on Reddit are wondering how this is even possible. At the end of Spider-Man: Far From Home, audiences were just as…

Redmi K50 Ultra with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 SoC was launched in China in August last year. The smartphone is yet to make its debut in other global markets including India, but rumours of a possible successor — Redmi K60 Ultra—have already started doing rounds on the Web. Most recently, the schematics of the Redmi K60 Ultra have leaked online, suggesting its design and specifications. The images hint at thin bezels, a rectangular-shaped camera module at the rear, and a hole punch cutout…

At the heart of a glob of stars drifting through the Milky Way lurks a beast.Located some 6,000 light-years away, a globular cluster known as Messier 4 appears to be clumped around a black hole some 800 times the mass of our Sun.That's no featherweight, but it's far from a colossus either. In fact, the object falls into an intermediate mass range rarely seen, between smaller black holes and supermassive chonkers.So far, our only detections of these in-between black holes have mostly been indirect and inconclusive, and…

Black holes come in two distinct types – small and supermassive. A group in the middle has long been hypothesized to exist, and now Hubble has found some strong evidence for one of these intermediate-mass black holes in a nearby star cluster.Stellar mass black holes are the most common ones, with masses from a few to a few dozen times that of the Sun. Then there’s a gigantic gap between them and the next type of black hole – supermassive monsters with the mass of millions or billions of Suns, which lurk at the center of…

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular star cluster, Messier 4. The cluster is a dense collection of several hundred thousand stars. Astronomers suspect that an intermediate-mass black hole, weighing as much as 800 times the mass of our Sun, is lurking, unseen, at its core. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Eduardo Vitral (STScI)A Dark Central Mass is Lurking at the Hub of a Glittering Stellar IslandGravitational traps in space, black holes, come in different sizes. Or more correctly, different masses, because they are…

Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell. Congratulations! You have the same number of hits as Trayce Thompson since April 17 (0 for 31).—It was nice to see James Outman break out of his slump. Max Muncy too.—The Dodgers announced that Dustin May, who left Wednesday’s start after one inning, has a flexor pronator strain in his right elbow. That’s the same elbow he had Tommy John surgery on in 2021. It will be an IL stint and the timetable for return is unknown. A flexor pronator…

In the treatment of epilepsy and other neurological disorders, doctors will sometimes implant arrays of stimulating electrodes on the surface of a patient's brain. A new soft robotic system allows those electrodes to be placed far less invasively than ever before.The problem with implanting a whole group of linked electrodes lies in the fact that a relatively large portion of the skull has to be removed (and then replaced) in the process. Needless to say, it would be much better if just a small hole could suffice.With…

This artist’s conception shows a close-up view to the accretion flow and the jet emerging from black hole region in Messier 87.  Researchers at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory have taken a panoramic image of a black hole and its jet in Messier 87 (M87) at a new 3.5 mm wavelength. The image, captured with the help of ALMA and GLT telescopes, has improved resolution and sensitivity, allowing for better understanding of the surrounding material, known as accretion, and the ring-like structure of the black hole. Credit:…

I told you that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 made me see Avengers: Endgame in a different light, thanks to Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper). This isn’t the first time I’ve changed my perspective on the big finale of the Infinity Saga. And it might happen again with other MCU releases. But I can’t explain why Rocket might be considered a massive Endgame plot hole now that Guardians Vol. 3 is out before I warn you that big spoilers will follow below. While Guardians Vol. 3 works as a standalone movie, you’ll…

Are we closer to the “Holy Grail” of clean energy? Silicon Valley wants you to believe. Warning! Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to Control Robots NextThis week, nuclear fusion startup Helion announced that it had inked a first-of-its-kind deal with Microsoft to provide 50 megawatts of power from a yet-to-be built power plant, all within the next five years. Unlike nuclear fission, the process that powers all the nuclear power plants existing today, nuclear fusion could create potentially unlimited energy. It’s a dream that…