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You’d assume that the brightest object in the known universe would be a pretty easy thing to discover, but astronomers have only just spotted it. This overlooked show-off is a supermassive black hole with the mass of 17 billion Suns, and counting – it swallows another Suns’ worth of material every day, making it also the fastest-growing black hole ever found.There’s a couple of obvious questions you’re probably asking about this. First, black holes are the blackest things that can exist, and light famously can’t escape…

In an astronomical twist, Mars is set to vanish from our celestial view for a fortnight, starting this Saturday. The phenomenon responsible for this cosmic disappearance is known as solar conjunction, where the sun acts as a radiant curtain, temporarily veiling Mars and Earth from each other. NASA aptly describes this celestial ballet as akin to dancers obscured by a colossal bonfire.This cosmic rendezvous occurs every two years, creating a celestial gap of approximately 235 million miles between Earth and Mars, compared…

In a world's first, scientists have observed a star completely swallowing up a planet, a phenomenon that will also happen to our own sun one day, killing us all.Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star, not unlike our sun, completely guzzling up a gas giant about the size of Jupiter, according to the AP. This will happen to the Earth, too, when our own sun eventually becomes a red giant and wipes out our planet. The good news, though, is that this shouldn't happen for another 5 billion…

Following the post-Gladiator boom that briefly saw it become the industry’s favorite genre for a hot minute, genuinely great historical epics have become increasingly few and far between. In fact, you often have to look beyond the shores of Hollywood to find the finest recent examples, which is where Kim Han-min’s still-incomplete Yi Sun-sin trilogy comes in. Kicking off in 2014 with The Admiral: Roaring Currents, only two of the sweeping war movies have been released so far, but concluding chapter Noryang: The Sea of…

Bitcoin dives once again and drags down with it the fate of all other cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, along with several other cryptocurrencies has crashed again, aiding the continuous meltdown of the crypto market and then again swallowing its hard-earned US$1T mark. The Bitcoin price gained a mildly hopeful price momentum when Tim Beiko announced the probable launch date of the Ethereum Merge upgrade. The second-largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, successfully helped the crypto market to cross the US$1 trillion mark…

Source: Luke Filipowicz / iMore A UK woman has narrowly avoided hospital after swallowing one of her AirPods when she mistook it for a vitamin. Outspoken TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp took to Twitter Sunday stating: In other news I just swallowed an AirPod while downing my vitamins, I don't recommend it. I've managed to chuck it back up without having to go to hospital, but my throat is really quite sore. Allsopp claims she accidentally ingested one of the buds while "downing my vitamins", but says she avoided having to…

A massive crater known as the “mouth to hell” began opening in the 1960s. Now, over 60 years later, the crater continues to grow, swallowing everything in its path. The most worrying part, though, is that scientists have no idea how to stop it. Russia’s “mouth to hell” continues to grow each year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAQbTFWM8Sc The crater began to form in the 1960s, shortly after parts of the massive forests that once covered the area were cleared out. Scientists believe the land was once…