Photon

The first-ever picture of a black hole was captured using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) in 2019. Located at the centre of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy, the black hole was seen with gas swirling around it and other features that were theoretically predicted by astronomers. While the photo was hailed as historic, it was quite blurry and did not offer intricate details of the black hole. Now, astronomers have remastered the image to reveal the black hole's photon ring that could not be seen earlier.The black hole in the…

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope gave us our first direct image of a black hole. It was a powerful image, but not one with much detail. It looks like a blurry orange donut.To be fair, the real meat of the discovery was in the data, not the image. And as a recent study shows, there's a great deal more in the data than what we've seen.One of the important things to understand about the EHT image is that it doesn't show the glow of the black hole itself. Black holes don't emit light directly.And unlike less detailed…

Chinese graphics card manufacturer Gunnir (opens in new tab) has announced the Arc A380 Photon 6GB OC, one of the first custom graphics cards based on Intel's Arc Alchemist family. However, the Arc A380 has a tough road ahead as Intel's offering has to compete with the best graphics cards on the market.The Arc A380 is Intel's entry-level graphics card that utilizes the chipmaker's Xe-HPG architecture and wields the ACM-G11 silicon. TSMC produces the ACM-G11 for Intel on the foundry's 6nm process node. The Arc A380 has…

Hero Electric is one of the oldest electric vehicle manufacturers, with over 4 lakh scooters on the road in India. Here Electric has emphasised that the cause behind the fire in this instance is not similar to the multiple cases of EV fires being reported in India.How did Hero Photon catch fire? A spokesperson told ETAuto that the user heard abnormal cracking sounds and saw flames coming from the electric switchboard of the home. The user saw the flames spreading on the floor and a can of paint nearby and rushed towards…

Electric two-wheelers are catching all the attention for the wrong reasons due to various incidents of them catching fire. In recent times, several incidents involving scooters from Ola Electric, Okinawa, Pure EV and Jitendra EV catching fire were reported throughout the country. The latest entrant in this unfortunate list of electric two-wheelers is Hero Electric. Recently, a Hero Electric Photon caught fire in Odisha, which has once again brought attention to the safety concerns related to electric two-wheelers. This…